3. Psix saccharicola (Mani)

(Figures 20–22)

Telenomus saccharicola Mani, 1941: 26; Mani & Sharma, 1982: 142. Psix saccharicola (Mani): Johnson & Masner, 1985: 49; Rajmohana, 2006: 106; Rajmohana & Talukdar, 2010: 62.

Female: Head and body black, eyes deep brown, radicle dark brown, scape yellow to yellowish-brown, clava deep brown; frons without distinct submedian carinae, width greater than eye height (32.6:26) (Fig. 21); lateral ocellus separated from eye by distance equal to its longest diameter (OD:OOL = 4.5:4.5); clava 5-segmented; scape 5x as long as wide, 4.5x as long as radicle; antennal segments in relative proportions (length: width) from scape: 22.5:4.5, 7:3.5, 4.5:3, 3.5:3.25, 3:3.25, 2:3.5, 2.5:4.5, 3:6, 3.75:6.25, 3:5.75, 5.75:4.5; netrion distinct, not obscured by pronotal sculpture, narrow, foveolate anteriorly (Fig. 20); anterior declivous portion of mesoscutum smooth; ventral lip of metascutellum smooth (Fig. 22); notaulus absent; postepimeral foveae with 10 impressions; metascutellum weakly protruding; coxae dark brown; relative proportions (length) of postmarginal, marginal, and stigma veins of forewing: 20.6:5.7:10.

Material Examined. INDIA: New Delhi, Holotype, female, on rectangular card, labelled in black “ Holotype, Telonomus saccharicola Mani female, C.S. 177, parasite on egg of pentatomid (?) on sugarcane leaf, IARI, New Delhi, coll. M. Ahamad, 10.VIII.1937 ”; paratype antenna on a slide, labelled, “ NPC (E), HYM 63, C.S. 177 from egg of pentatomid on sugarcane, Delhi, coll. M. Ahamad, 10.viii.37 ” (NPC).