Apanteles tachardiae Viereck 1913
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(Figures 80, 103, 104q)
Apanteles tachardiae Cameron, 1913: 109. Holotype ♀ (examined)— India [NHM, Fig. 104q]. Ayyar, 1920: 932; Mahdihassan, 1925: 80; Wilkinson, 1928: 119; Beeson & Chatterjee, 1935: 119; Beeson, 1941; 364; Negi, 1941: 20; De Saeger, 1942: 39; Thompson, 1953: 84; Mahdihassan, 1955: 100; Kulkarni, 1965: 319; Nixon, 1965: 72; Teotia, 1965: 522; You, 1981: 26–27; Chen & Song, 2004: 88.
Diagnosis. Body length 1.9 mm, fore wing length 2.7 mm. Body black, hind femur blackish. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus just touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus about as long as diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna distinctly longer than body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.8× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum slightly shorter than its diameter. Areola on propodeum narrow, depressed, V-shaped apically, without costulae. Pterostigma 3.0× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.2× longer than pterostigma, vein r 1.2× longer than vein 2-SR, distinctly angled at junction. T1 strongly constricted towards apex, 2.2× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, weakly rugose, longitudinal channel narrow; T2 slightly rough, 3.0× wider than long in the middle; T3 1.6× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than hind tibia.
Hosts. According to literature, Holcocera pulverea Meyr, Ephestia sp., Corcyra cephalonica Stainton, Eublemma amabilis Moore, Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr, Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr [Laccifer lacca] and Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr [Laccifer mysorensis] (Yu et al. 2016).
Material examined. 1♀, Qingyuan, Zhejiang, 1985.VIII.1–2, Wu Quancong, No. 851971; 1♀, Mt. Gutian, Zhejiang, 1986.VII.22, Lou Xiaoming, No. 863401; 1♀, Xianrending, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 2011.VII.27, Song Shengnan, No. 201102171.
Distribution. China (Hunan, Zhejiang); India.
Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens agree with the published description and the type specimen except T2 narrower (Fig. 80e).
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1985-08-01 , 1986-07-22 , 2011-07-27
- Verbatim event date
- 1985-08-01/02 , 1986-07-22 , 2011-07-27
- Scientific name authorship
- Viereck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Apanteles
- Species
- tachardiae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apanteles tachardiae Viereck, 1913 sec. Liu, He, Chen & Gupta, 2020
References
- Cameron, P. (1913) On the parasitic Hymenoptera reared at Dehra Dun, Northern India from Lac (Tachardia) and Sal insects. Indian Forest Records, 4, 1 - 20.
- Wilkinson, D. S. (1928) A revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Apanteles (Hym. Bracon.). Part I. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 19, 79 - 105, 109 - 146. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300020393
- Nixon, G. E. J. (1965) A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series, Supplement 2, 1 - 284.
- You, L. S., Xiong, S. L. & Tong, X. W. (1981) Annals (3) of Apanteles Forster from China. Journal of Hunan Agricultural College, 20 (4), 19 - 28. [in Chinese]
- Chen, J. H. & Song, D. B. (2004) Systematic studies on Microgastrinae of China (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Fujian Scientific Publisher, Fuzhow, 354 pp. [in Chinese with English summary]
- Yu, D. S, van Achterberg, C. & Hosrtmann, K. (2016) Taxapad 2016: World Ichneumonoidea 2015. Taxapad, Ottawa. Taxapad database. [on flash-drive]