Brachymeria bengalensis (Cameron, 1897)

Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 342-381 : 355-357

Brachymeria bengalensis (Cameron, 1897)

( Figures 19, 20 )

Brachymeria scrobatae Joseph, Narendran and Joy, 1970

Brachymeria yasumatsui Habu, 1963

Brachymeria (Brachymeria) bengalensis delhiensis Farooqi, Husain and Ghai, 1991

Brachymeria (Brachymeria) bengalensis hyati Farooqi, Husain and Ghai, 1991

Chalcis bengalensis Cameron, 1897

Stypiura variabilis Mani, 1935

Material examined

INDIA: Goa: Sattari, Ambedem , 9 February 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Sattari, Ambedem , 23 December 2019, 1 male, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Dharbandora, Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary and Mollem National Park, 10 February 2019, 1 male, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Description

Female and male, length of the body 4–4.4 mm.

Colour. Body mostly black with following pale yellow: tegulae, tibia and tarsi of fore, mid and hindleg. The apex of the hind femur. Distal half of fore and mid femur. Reddish-brown: Hind femur, the apex of coxae, lateral sides of metasoma.

Head. Wider than high in frontal view. Head wider than mesosoma in dorsal view. Scrobe touching anterior ocellus. POL 3.1× OOL. Pre-orbital carina absent. Post-orbital carina present. Scape in length equals to F1, F2 and F3 combined. Antennal clava less than twice the length of F7.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and metanotum densely punctate. Scutellum at apex emarginate and bilobed and covered with silvery pubescence. Fore wing with post-marginal vein shorter than marginal vein and longer than stigmal vein. Ventral side of hind coxa pubescent. Ventro-basal tooth on hind coxa absent.

Distribution

INDIA. Assam, Delhi, Goa (new record), Kerala, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal ( Sheela et al. 2015; Emiliyamma 2016).

Figures

Figure 19–24. Habitus: 19–20, Brachymeria bengalensis; 21–22, Brachymeria carbonaria; 23–24, Brachymeria euploeae.