Dolichogenidea cinnarae Gupta, Lokhande & Soman, 2013
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Taxonomic placement
Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae
Brief diagnosis
Dolichogenidea cinnarae sp. nov. is separated from all other congeners by following combination of characters: small size and hind tibia slightly shorter than ovipositor sheath. Fore wing with pterostigma length/ height = 1.49; 1CUa length/1CUb length = 0.88; first abscissa of radius (2r) meeting transverse cubitus (Rs) at an angle and 1CUb vein with a shallow curve. First metasomal tergal plate longer than wide, smooth and shiny; parallel sided. Second tergum wider than long; shorter than third tergum. Tergite (2+3) distal to the basal area smooth and shiny without any coarse sculpture. Ovipositor sheaths distinctly projecting beyond apex of gaster with well defined apical attenuation. Ovipositor sheaths long and hairy throughout; gently decurved; with well defined apical attenuation. Anterior third of mesopleuron punctate and setose, posteriorly and medially smooth and nitid except for punctate edges. Metapleuron generally smooth, anterior pit deep. Hind coxae laterally and dorsally with shallow punctures.
Comments
It resembles D. kunhi in general body color as well coloration of legs and differs from it in having smaller size as well as marked smooth and shiny first metasomal tergal plate and hind tibia 0.87× ovipositor sheath. This new species also runs close to a Chinese species, A. lissos Nixon, in key to the Indo-Australian species of the ultor-group of Apanteles Foerster (Nixon 1967). It resembles A. lissos in that both species have a smooth first tergite as well as the well defined apical attenuation of the ovipositor but differs in having a strong and prominent areola in the propodeum (vs. weak areolation of propodeum in A. lissos).
Geographical distribution
India.