Psix saccharicola (Mani)

Singh, Longjam Roni Kumar, Johnson, Norman F. & Y, R A M A M U Rt H, 2012, New species of the genus Psix Kozlov & Lê (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), Zootaxa 3530, pp. 35-42 : 41

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).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 22. 17, eggs of host (coreid). 18 – 19, Psix abnormis Kozlov & Lê, female. 18, lateral habitus; 19, frontal view showing head and ‘ SK’: anterior declivous portion of mesoscutum; 20 – 22, Psix saccharicola (Mani), female. 20, fronto-lateral view showing ‘ N’: netrion; 21, head, fronto-ventral view; 22, mesosoma, posterior view showing ‘ VL’: ventral lip. Scale = 0.2 mm.