Female: Body length 1.97. Colour: Body black except first 2 metasomal tergites; labial and maxillary palps white; eyes grey; ocelli yellow testaceous; region below clypeus yellow; mandibles yellow with apical margins black. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellow; flagellomeres yellowish- brown in lateral view, more yellowish ventrally and brownish dorsally; tegula yellowish-brown. Fore and mid leg light yellow brown (except fore coxa medially black with extreme base and apical region yellow, trochantellus yellow testaceous); hind leg with coxa black, trochantellus yellow testaceous; hind femur distinctly bi-coloured, with distinct diagonal demarcation between the 2 coloured regions, almost one third apical half of hind femur dark brown, basal 2 thirds yellowish-brown; hind tibia with sub-basal ring, extreme base and apical half dark brown, remaining yellow; hind tibial spurs yellow testaceous; fore wing infuscated with brown apical patch, pterostigma dark brown; first and second metasomal tergite yellow testaceous except for black spot at medio-posterior margin of second tergite adjoining third tergite, remaining black.
Geographical distribution
India.
References
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. & Fernández-Triana, J.L. (2015). Four new species of the genus Diolcogaster Ashmead, 1900 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from South East Asia with a key to the Indian species. Systematic Parasitology, 90 (3): 285-300.
10.1007/s11230-014-9546-8