Hockeria manii Narendran, 1989

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 : 369-370

Hockeria manii Narendran, 1989

( Figures 39, 40 )

Hockeria manii Narendran, 1989

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Dharbandora, Mollem National Park , 9 February 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Ambedem , 12 March 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas ; 20 June 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas ; 9 February 2019, 4 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Honda , 3 September 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas .

Description

Female, length of the body 2.5– 3 mm.

Colour. Body largely black with following pale brown: scape, pedicel, tegulae, fore tarsi, mid-leg except for coxa, hind tarsi, apex and base of the hind femur, hind tibia dorsally.

Head. Triangular, wider than long. Scrobe shallow and not reaching anterior ocellus. Scape 8× as long as broad. Antennae long and slender. POL 5× OOL.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices narrower than the distance between punctures. Scutellum emarginate with weak lobes. Fore wing with 2 brown infuscations and a hyaline spot in between. Post-marginal vein shorter than marginal and stigmal vein.

Metasoma. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 with 3 basal carinae.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record), Kerala ( Emiliyamma 2016) .

Figures

Figure 37–42. Habitus: 37–38, Hockeria argentigera; 39–40, Hockeria manii; 41–42, Haltichella clavicornis.