Acidiostigma bomiense Wang, 1998, 1996

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Acidiostigma bomiense Wang, 1998

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Diagnosis: Species well described by Wang (1998) and our specimen fits the description. It is medium sized (6.1 mm) brown-red species having well developed chaetotaxy on head and thorax. Three frontal setae and 2 orbital setae. Occiput pale brown with row of thin black setae. Gena pale brown with two strong setae and row of setulae. Row of setulae present on either side of face. Scutum red-brown, covered with minute black dots, dorsocentral setae situated behind the line of postsutural supra-alar setae. Two anepisternal setae, no yellow marking on thorax. All leg segments pale brownish and fore femora with 7–8 posteroventral setae. Wings largely dimidiate (6.3 mm), cell c slightly longer than cell sc, broad dark band present, covering anterior half of wing above vein M except cells bc and c hyaline and a hyaline spot in cell r1 at apex of pterostigma. Abdomen oval, brownish, setose, tergites IV–VI blackish. Terminal area of female abdomen black with dark and flattened oviscape. Genitalia not dissected.

Material examined: 1 ♀, Shimla , Himachal Pradesh, India, 29.VIII.2020, Isha Sharma Leg. at Zoological Survey of India ( HARC, Solan) .

Host plant: Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 6. A & B: Goniurellia lacerata C & D: Acidiostigma bomiense, E: Male genitalia of G. lacerata and F: Glans of G. lacerata