Pardoteleia flava Veenakumari

Kamalanathan, Veenakumari & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2016, A new Indian species of Pardoteleia Kozlov & Lê (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae: Scelioninae) and first description of the male, Zootaxa 4158 (4), pp. 592-600 : 593-595

Pardoteleia flava Veenakumari new species

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Description. Holotype: Female: Body length= 1.133 mm; (m= 1.101 mm (1.046–1.144mm); SD=0.03; n=10).

Body color: Head, mesosoma and T1 honey brown; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum laterally with dark brown patches; T2 dark brown; T3 with two postero-lateral dark brown patches; T4 with irregular brown patches sublaterally; rest of metasoma golden yellow; antenna yellowish brown, clava brown to dark brown; legs light yellow; mandibles reddish brown; eyes grey; ocelli black ( Figs 1, 3 ).

Head ( Figs 2, 4–6 ): FCI=1.36; LCI=1.43; IOS 0.44× width of head, narrowest ventral to anterior ocellus; frons and vertex finely reticulate; length and width of mandible in ratio of 10.2:4.8; clypeus triangular, L:H=7.7:4.0; posterior ocelli contiguous with orbit; POL>LOL in ratio of 10:5.3; compound eyes (L:W=14.8:9.5) 1.6× as long as wide; length and width of antennomeres A1–A 12 in ratio of 18.8:5.8, 5.3:3.5, 3.0:3.0, 2.5:3.3, 2.0:2.8, 2.0:2.8, 2.5:4.5, 3.0:7.0, 3.8:7.8, 4.3:7.3, 3.0:6.8, 5.0:5.3, respectively; radicle 0.36× the length of A1; A1 reticulate; clava densely setose; rows of sparse long white setae present dorsally. Mesosoma ( Figs 4, 5 ): Mesoscutum (L:W=15.4:26.4) and mesoscutellum (L:W=6.5:17.6) scaly reticulate, setose; skaphion present; lateral pronotal area faintly reticulate; netrion spindle shaped; mesopleuron with mesopleural pit; mesepimeral sulcus foveate; mesopleural carina present reaching little short of mesopleural pit; metapleural sulcus present; metapleural pit and postero-dorsal metapleural sulcus present; scutoscutellar sulcus foveate; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus foveate; metascutellum broadly triangular, anteriorly foveate; metanotal trough foveate; propodeum with lateral propodeal area sparsely setose; posterior propodeal projections pointed; wings reduced, narrow, strip-like reaching T1.

Metasoma ( Figs 1, 7 ): (L: W=43.3:30.3); T1 medially costate and laterally reticulate, costae almost reaching the posterior margin of tergite; T1 with four lateral setae; T2 antero-medially with basal fovea, from which striae extend almost to posterior margin; T2 sub-laterally reticulate; T3 reticulate except for a smooth posterior margin; rest of tergites with similar sculpturing as T3; metasoma sparsely setose in lateral 1/3rd; T7 triangular; length and width of tergites T1–T 7 in ratio of 3.7:11.5, 8.1:22.6, 18.8:30.1, 6.0:26.2, 1.9:18.3, 2.2:12.4, 4.2:5.9, respectively.

Male: Unknown.

Diagnosis. Pardoteleia flava is micropterous while P. prater is macropterous; central keel present in P. prater while it is absent in P. f l a v a; T 2 in P. flava dark brown, while in P. prater T2 dark brown only in lateral 1/5th.

Etymology. The species is named ‘ flava ’ which means yellow in Latin, referring to the yellow body color.

Link to distribution map. [http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=418870]

Material examined. Holotype, female: INDIA: Karnataka, Bengaluru , 921m, 13°15'54''N 92°58'57'' E, Jarakabande Kaval, 4.VIII.2014, Malaise trap, K. Veenakumari, ICAR / NBAIR /P337 (deposited in NBAIR) . Paratypes: INDIA: 17 females, ICAR / NBAIR /P338 –ICAR/NBAIR/P349, ICAR/NBAIR/P352–ICAR/NBAIR/ P354 (NBAIR); ZSI/WGRS/IR/INV4095, ZSI/WGRS/IR/INV4120 (WGRS).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Brightfield images of Pardoteleia flava sp. n. 1. Habitus (dorsal) 2. Head and antenna, antero-ventral view 3. Habitus (lateral) 4. Head and mesosoma, lateral view 5. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 6. Head, anterior view 7. Metasoma, dorsal view.