Heresiarches indicus, Riedel, 2013

Riedel, M., 2013, Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of Southeastern Asia: 2. Tribe Heresiarchini, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 2025-2076 : 2052-2053

Heresiarches indicus nov.sp. ( fig. 2 , 23 )

H o l o t y p u s (): " India, Kerala, Pooparai, 2.5.2005, 10 02,2´N 77 07,3´E, leg. M. Halada, 1700 m " (Linz).

D e s c r i p t i o n of: Body length 10.5 mm. Flagellum slender and slightly lanceolate, with 38 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 4.3x, and the second one 3.5x as long as wide, together about 0.93x as long as compound eye, widest flagellomeres 1.2x as wide as long. Temple short, strongly narrowed behind eye, seen from lateral 0.62x as wide as eye, with superficial puncture. Distance of lateral ocellus to compound eye about 0.8x its diameter. Frons smooth, above with superficial puncture. Face and clypeus with scattered puncture, intervals smooth.

Mesosoma with short whitish hairs. Mesoscutum with coarse puncture and granulation, matte. Mesopleurum punctured,speculum smooth. Metapleurum with denser puncture. Coxal carina distinct. Scutellum moderately convex, wider than long, with strong lateral carina and scattered puncture. Areae basalis and superomedia confluent and smooth, costula behind the middle of area superomedia. Area petiolaris with lateral carina, rugose. Coxa III with dense rugulo-puncture, matte, without scopa. Femur III with dense puncture, about 4.8x as long as high.

Areolet pentagonal, frontal distance of intercubiti 3x its diameter, nervulus strongly postfurcal.

Postpetiole moderately widened. Lateral field of postpetiole punctured, median field with striation. Gastrocoelus deeply impressed, with some longitudinal striae. Thyridium oblique, about 0.6x as wide as the thyridial interval. Second tergite as long as wide. Tergites 2-3 with coarse rugulo-puncture, matte, with fine median striation. Tergite 4 with superficial puncture. Ovipositor sheath long, seen from dorsal almost as long as the sixth and seventh tergites together.

Coloration: Black. Cream-yellow are stripe on flagellomeres 7-13, palps, labrum, sides of clypeus, facial orbits, widened and almost confluent below antenna, gena except narrow black line on malar space, orbits completely, spot on scapus beneath, anterior and upper margins of pronotum, spot on tergula, subtegular ridge, longitudinal line on lower mesopleurum, sides of scutellum, postscutellum, carinal triangle, apical half of area dentipara, apical bands on all tergites (on tergites 1-4 narrowed medially), coxae and trochanters I-II, basal spot on coxa III dorsally. Coxa III red ventrally, with black dorsal mark apically. Legs otherwise red. Tibia III slightly infuscate apically, tarsus III reddishbrown. Pterostigma brownish.

unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: India.

Figures

Fig. 1-4: Head of (1) Aglaojoppa nepalensis nov.sp.; (2) Heresiarches indicus nov.sp.; (3) Heresiarches minor nov.sp.; (4) Heresiarches rufocoxatus nov.sp..

Fig. 21-24: Propodeum of (21) Heresiarches felix HEINRICH; (22) Heresiarches formosanus nov.sp.; (23) Heresiarches indicus nov.sp.; (24) Heresiarches rufomaculatus nov.sp..