Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Diolcogaster solitarium Gupta & Fernandez-Triana, 2015

Female: Body length 2.34-2.53 mm. Colour - Head and mesosoma black, metasoma with first tergite, lateral plates of second tergite and anterior lateral corners of third and fourth tergite yellowish-brown, remaining black, ovipositor sheaths black. Antenna with flagellomeres F1-F6 yellowish brown; F7-F16 black; flagellomeres lighter ventrally. Clypeal region black; labial and maxillary palps white; ocelli yellow brown; eyes black. Mesosoma black; tegula yellowish-brown; fore wing with faint infuscation scattered below and behind pterostigma in basal half of wing, pterostigma dark brown. Fore and mid leg light yellow brown (except dark pretarsus); hind leg including coxa yellowish-brown except apical half of hind tibia dark brown; hind tibial spurs testaceous, basal one third of hind basitarsus yellow, apical 2 thirds dark brown.

India.

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.
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