Apanteles tachardiae Viereck, 1913

Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, Zootaxa 4807 (1), pp. 1-205 : 162-164

Apanteles tachardiae Viereck, 1913

( Figures 80 , 103 , 104q )

Apanteles tachardiae Cameron, 1913: 109 . Holotype ♀ (examined)— India [NHM, Fig. 104q ]. Ayyar, 1920: 932; Mahdihassan, 1925: 80; Wilkinson, 1928: 119; Beeson & Chatterjee, 1935: 119; Beeson, 1941; 364; Negi, 1941: 20; De Saeger, 1942: 39; Thompson, 1953: 84; Mahdihassan, 1955: 100; Kulkarni, 1965: 319; Nixon, 1965: 72; Teotia, 1965: 522; You, 1981: 26–27; Chen & Song, 2004: 88.

Diagnosis. Body length 1.9 mm, fore wing length 2.7 mm. Body black, hind femur blackish. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus just touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus about as long as diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna distinctly longer than body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.8× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum slightly shorter than its diameter. Areola on propodeum narrow, depressed, V-shaped apically, without costulae. Pterostigma 3.0× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.2× longer than pterostigma, vein r 1.2× longer than vein 2-SR, distinctly angled at junction. T1 strongly constricted towards apex, 2.2× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, weakly rugose, longitudinal channel narrow; T2 slightly rough, 3.0× wider than long in the middle; T3 1.6× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than hind tibia.

Hosts. According to literature, Holcocera pulverea Meyr , Ephestia sp., Corcyra cephalonica Stainton , Eublemma amabilis Moore , Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr , Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr [ Laccifer lacca ] and Pseudohypatopa pulverea Meyr [ Laccifer mysorensis ] ( Yu et al. 2016).

Material examined. 1♀, Qingyuan , Zhejiang, 1985.VIII.1–2, Wu Quancong, No. 851971 ; 1♀, Mt. Gutian , Zhejiang, 1986.VII.22, Lou Xiaoming, No. 863401 ; 1♀, Xianrending, Mt. Tianmu , Zhejiang, 2011.VII.27, Song Shengnan, No. 201102171 .

Distribution. China (Hunan, Zhejiang); India.

Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens agree with the published description and the type specimen except T2 narrower ( Fig. 80e ).

Figures

FIGURE 80. Apanteles tachardiae Viereck, 1913, a. habitus, lateral view; b. hind wing; c. head, dorsal view; d. mesonotum and scutellum, dorsal view; e. metasoma, dorsal view; f. head, frontal view; g. mesopleuron; h. propodeum. Scale line = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 104. Types of ater-group of the genus Apanteles from NHM. a1–a2. A. argiope Nixon, 1965; b. A. aristaeus Nixon, 1965; c1–c2. A. bisulcata Cameron, 1909; d. A. cerberus Nixon, 1965; e. A. clita Nixon, 1965; f. A. cocotis Wilkinson, 1934; g1–g2. A. demades Nixon, 1965; h. A. diocles Nixon, 1965; i1–i2. A. florus Nixon, 1965; j. A. folia Nixon, 1965; k. A. galleriae Wilkinson, 1932; l. A. importunus Wilkinson, 1928; m. A. medon Nixon, 1965; n. A. oritias Nixon, 1965; o1–o2. A. psenes Nixon, 1965; p. A. salutifer Wilkinson, 1931; q. A. tachardiae Cameron, 1913.

FIGURE 103. 77–97: Distribution map of ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster, 1862. 77: A. semicarinatus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 78: A. sodalis (Haliday, 1834); 79: A. stigmaium Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 80: A. tachardiae Viereck, 1913; 81: A. taragamae Viereck, 1912; 82: A. tenuis Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 83: A. unguifortis Song & Chen, 2004; 84: A. usipetes Nixon, 1965; 85: A. verticalis Song & Chen, 2004; 86: A. wuyiensis Song & Chen, 2002; 87: A. alticella Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 88: A. aphanoiugum Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 89: A. cavitergita Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 90: A. heichinensis Sonan, 1942; 91: A. impunctus Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 92: A. lineatella Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 93: A. longiala Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 94: A. palliditegula Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 95: A. rectala Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 96: A. rhombos Liu & Chen, sp. nov.; 97: A. setosus Liu & Chen, sp.