Megascogaster

Kittel, Rebecca N., 2014, Revision of Megascogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae), with a new species from Sulawesi, Indonesia, Zootaxa 3860 (4), pp. 371-378 : 372

Key to the species of Megascogaster

1. Ratio of length of fore wing to length of body 0.67; occipital carina complete ( Fig. 2 b); propodeal tubercules absent ( Fig. 1 ); mesopleuron shiny and punctate ( Fig. 2 c); legs orange to light brown; female with 30 antennomeres ( Philippines)........................................................................................... M. elongata Baker 1926

- Ratio of length of fore wing to length of body 0.75; occipital carina dorsally interrupted ( Fig. 4 a); propodeal tubercules present ( Fig. 3 ); mesopleuron shiny and smooth ( Fig. 3 ); legs brown to dark brown ( Fig. 3 ); female with 28 antennomeres (Sulawesi, Indonesia)............................................................................. M. wallacei sp. n.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Megascogaster elongata Baker, 1926, male, holotype, habitus dorso-lateral, scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 2. Megascogaster elongata, male, holotype, a head frontal, b head dorsal, c mesosoma lateral, d posterior end of metasoma lateral, e fore wing; scale bars a, c, d, e = 1 mm, b = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 3. Megascogaster wallacei sp. n., female, holotype, habitus lateral, scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 4. Megascogaster wallacei sp. n., female, a mesosoma dorsal, holotype, b head frontal, holotype, c fore wing, paratype; scale bars a, b = 0.5 mm, c = 1 mm.