Apanteles
Description
Apanteles sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Plate. XVIII (Figs 65−66).
Brief diagnosis. The genus can be identified with following characters: fore wing with second r-m vein absent, small areolet (second submarginal cell) open distally; hind wing with vannal lobe distally flattened and with reduced fringe of hairs; propodeum with oval, pentagonal, hexagonal or anteriorly open medial areola; first metasomal tergite usually with medial subapical depression and second metasomal tergite strongly transverse, often with convex or sinuate posterior margin; ovipositor and sheaths long and exserted; desclerotized hypopygium easily visible in some species.
Host. Jamides celeno (Cramer) on the host plant Millettia (= Pongamia) pinnata (L.) Panigrahi.
Material examined. One female, INDIA, Maharashtra, Chinchoti, Naigon, 17.viii.2013, coll. Paresh V. Churi, ex. Jamides celeno (Cramer) on the host plant Millettia (= Pongamia) pinnata (L.) Panigrahi, NBAII //Bra/Prot/sp/ 17813.
Remarks. Indian Apanteles needs thorough revision hence the species identity could not be confirmed, specimen being a singleton.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Apanteles
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Taxon rank
- genus