Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Female: Body length 2.69. Colour. Body black except lateral sides of first 3 metasomal tergites; labial and maxillary palps white; ocelli pale testaceous; region below clypeus yellow; eyes grey; mandibles yellow, with apical margins black. Antennae with scape and pedicel ventrally yellow, flagellomeres F1-F4 dark brown, F5-F7 white, F8 white basally and ventrally, F9 (apical half)-F16 dark brown. Pronotum and propleuron bi-coloured, random mixture of yellow and brown patches. Mesoscutum black, with extreme lateral corners on apical margin brown; tegula pale yellowish. Wings hyaline. Fore and mid coxa, trochanter and trochantellus pale testaceous, remaining yellowish; mid femur extreme tips and extreme basal tip and apical region of mid tibia brown; hind coxa yellow brown except small apical and basal patch black; one third apical region of hind femur and tibia, along with basal ring of hind femur dark brown, remaining portion yellow brown. Basitarsus dark brown (prominent in hind basitarsus); hind tibial spurs yellow testaceous. Median tergal plates of first, second and third metasomal segments black, lateral sides pale testaceous to faint yellow, rest black. Junction of T3-T4 and T4-T5 pale testaceous.

India.

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