Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Apanteles tivacolae Ashmead, 1896.
Apanteles tivacholae Ashmead, 1896
Apanteles tiracholae Wilkinson, 1928
Apanteles tiracolae Thompson, 1953

Female: Body length 2.5mm. Black. Antennae mostly black, scape yellowish brown with apex black; tegulae brown; fore and mid legs testaceous red (except red brown coxae with slight bluish-black tinge dorsally). Hind coxa black with white apex, rugose punctate and shining. Hind femora tipped with black; hind tibia darkened towards apex and hind tarsi dark brown. Hind tibial spurs subequal and pale testaceous; individually shorter than half of basitarsus. Forewings with pterostigma and wing veins brown; R1 vein longer than pterostigma. Hindwings with margin of vannal lobe almost convex and hairy throughout.

India & Sri Lanka.

Fernández-Triana, J.L., 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. & Fernández-Triana, J.L. (2014). Diversity, host association and cocoon variability of reared Indian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). (Monograph), Zootaxa, 3800(1), 1–101.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3800.1.1

Gupta, A. & Lokhande, S.A. (2013). A new host record and a new combination in Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India. Journal of threatened taxa, 5(2) 3678-3681.