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Psilochalcis carinigena

  • 1. School of Sciences (SoS), Jain University, Bangalore, India;
  • 2. Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, ICAR - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India

Description

Psilochalcis carinigena (Cameron, 1907)

(Figures 49, 50)

Chalcidiopsis odontomera Masi, 1933

Coelochalcis carinigena Cameron, 1907

Invreia opisinae Narendran, 1985

Psilochalcis carinigena (Cameron, 1907)

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Dharbandora, Mollem National Park, 9 February 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas; 16 April 2019, 1 male, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas; Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary, 15 May 2019, 1 male, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Description

Female and male, length of the body 4–4.5 mm.

Colour. Body largely black with following brownish red: tegulae, femur, tibia and tarsi of fore and mid-leg, hind femur and tarsi, hind tibia dorsally. Body densely pubescent.

Head. Triangular, slightly wider than high. Antennae long and slender. Clava 1× as long as preceding segments combined. POL 4× OOL.

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum punctate. Interstices smooth and shiny. The apex of scutellum slightly emarginate. Fore wing with marginal vein removed from the margin. Coxa of the fore leg on lateral side rugose.

Metasoma. T1 smooth and shiny and without basal carina.

Distribution

INDIA. Andaman and Nicobar island, Bihar, Goa (new record), Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal (Gowriprakash et al. 2016, 2018; Daniel and Ramaraju 2017a, 2017b).

Notes

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 374-375, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-02-09 , 2019-04-16 , 2019-05-15
Verbatim event date
2019-02-09 , 2019-04-16 , 2019-05-15
Scientific name authorship
Cameron
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Chalcididae
Genus
Psilochalcis
Species
carinigena
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Psilochalcis carinigena (Cameron, 1907) sec. Gawas & Gupta, 2024

References

  • Gowriprakash J, Manickavasagam S, Kanagarajan R. 2016. New records of chalcidid (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) pupal parasitoids from India. Biodivers Data J. 4: e 6900. doi: 10.3897 / BDJ. 4. e 6900.
  • Gowriprakash J, Manickavasagam S, Gupta A. 2018. First report of Antrocephalus neogalleriae (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) from India and other Chalcididae distributional records. J Entomol Zool Stud. 6 (6): 924 - 926.
  • Daniel JA, Ramaraju K. 2017 a. Diversity of chalcidids (Chalcididae: Hymenoptera) among three rice growing zones of Tamil Nadu, India. J Entomol Zool Stud. 5 (3): 541 - 546.
  • Daniel JA, Ramaraju K. 2017 b. A study of three methods of sampling Chalcididae and Pteromalidae in major rice ecosystems of Tamil Nadu. J Exp Zool. 20: 1037 - 1041.