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Eutrichosomella

Description

Key to Indian species of Eutrichosomella (females)

1. Antennal scape more or less cylindrical, at least 4× as long as broad; at most F1 transverse and F1 and F2 combined longer than F3 (Fig. 1); antenna yellow to white; fore wing infuscated below marginal vein, hyaline below submarginal vein and apex; fore wing with postmarginal vein absent (Figs 7, 12); scutellum with anterior pair of scutellar setae located in posterior half (Fig. 4).............................................................................................2

- Antennal scape slightly flattened with ventral margin broadly convex, slightly more than 3× as long as broad; F1 and F2 transverse, both combined shorter than F3 (Manickavasagam & Menakadevi 2012: fig. 3); antenna dark brown, with a subapical band on scape, and upper margins of pedicel and F3, white, and clava white with a large brown patch in basal third; fore wing infuscate except base below submarginal vein, a large suboval spot in the median infuscate area, a transverse, nearly straight band adjacent to distal veins, and the apex narrowly, hyaline (Manickavasagam & Menakadevi 2012: fig. 6); fore wing with postmarginal vein present, about three-fourths length of stigmal vein (Fig. 15); scutellum with anterior pair of scutellar setae located in anterior third (Fig. 13). (Body largely brown to dark brown, gaster with TI white.)........................................................................................ E. keralaensis Manickavasagam & Menakadevi

2. Antenna with funicle segments all longer than broad, but F1 shorter than F2, F3 1.57× as long as F2 (Singh & Srinivasa 2010: fig. 4); median length of propodeum 1.46× as long as median length of metanotum (Fig. 11); fore wing with width of the apical hyaline area broad, about 0.55× width of infuscate area (Singh & Srinivasa 2010: fig. 8); gaster brown, with TI except a brown band across base, and TII, except posterior margin, white.......................................... E. indica Singh

- Antenna with F1 slightly broader than long, shorter than F2, F3 1.18× as long as F2 (Fig. 1); median length of propodeum 3× median length of metanotum (Fig. 5); fore wing with width of the apical hyaline area about 0.12× width of infuscate area (Fig. 6); gaster dark brown, with TI medially in about anterior half white.......................... E. veenakumariae sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Hayat, Mohammad, 2014, Eutrichosomellini (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) from India, with description of two new genera, pp. 425-442 in Zootaxa 3821 (4) on page 432, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/251113

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Biodiversity

Family
Aphelinidae
Genus
Eutrichosomella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Manickavasagam, S. & Menakadevi, C. (2012) A new species of Eutrichosomella Girault (Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) from India, with additional distribution records of chalcids. Madras Agriculture Journal, 99, 877 - 881.
  • Singh, S. & Srinivasa, S. (2010) Description of a new species of the genus Eutrichosomella Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) from the western Ghats, India. Annals of Entomology, 28, 1 - 5.