Female: Body length = 3.18 mm. Body colour. Head dark yellowish brown; dark blackish brown in inter ocellar region; rest vertex dark yellowish brown; palps white; scape yellow; scape with black infuscation laterally; tegula brown; fore and mid legs yellow. Hind coxa black, trochanter and trochantellus yellow, basal tip of hind femur brown, rest femur black; apical two third of tibia and basitarsus black (except at extreme basal tip yellowish white), tarsal segments 2-3 white, terminal segments brown.
Comments
This species can be most distinctly identified with T1 having a distinct yellow lateral horn located sub basally and pre-medially near the anterior end; temples and vertex striate. Fore wings with vein 2Rs greater than r-m. Fore and mid legs yellow with terminal segments brown. Mean face width /head width = 0.45. Hind tarsal segments 2–3 white.
Geographical distribution
India.
References
Fernandez-Triana, J., Shaw, M.R., Boudreault, C., Beaudin, M. & Broad, G.R. (2020). Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys, 920: 1-1089.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.920.39128
Gupta, A. 2013. Three new species of reared parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from India. Zootaxa 3701 (3): 365–380.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3701.3.6
Gupta, A. & Fernandez-Triana, J.L. (2014). Diversity, host association and cocoon variability of reared Indian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa, 3800(1), 1–101.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3800.1.1