Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Microgaster tomentosae Wilkinson, 1930

Female: Body length 2.28 (habitus view), 2.34–2.44 (dorsal view). Head and mesosoma black, metasoma (except black ovipositor sheaths) and antenna yellowish-brown; clypeal region dark brown; labial and maxillary palps white; eyes black; ocelli yellow brown. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres (F1-F2) yellowish, remaining flagellomeres brown; in general flagellomeres more yellowish ventrally. Mesosoma black; tegula yellowish-brown. Fore wing with faint infuscation in the middle, pterostigma dark brown. Fore and mid leg light yellow brown (except dark pretarsus); hind leg including coxa yellow testaceous except apical half of hind tibia dark brown; hind tibial spurs yellow testaceous; hind tarsi dark brown.

Male: Almost similar to female except few colour variations: metasoma yellowish except dark brown colour extending from middle of posterior margin of T3, median region of T4 up to the apex (in female only T7 dark brown rest yellowish-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.
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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.
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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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