Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Female: The most distinctive characters include yellow silken cocoons. Antenna with scape yellow (except apical edge brownish black); scuto-scutellar groove distinctly crenulate with nine deep costulae; mid legs light yellow (except coxae and tarsal claws brownish). Propodeum smooth and nitid with shallow lateral longitudi-nal carinae inclined medially, areola absent; spiracles conspicuously large and round. First metasomal tergum brown and nitid; widest pre-apically; apically narrower and curvaceous at the edges; medially with a shallow dent or curve similar to inverted “U” shape; without any noticeable sculpture except for some fine striations pre-apically. Ovipositor broad in lateral view and ovipositor sheaths covered with long setae in distal one third.

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. & Pereira, B. (2012). A new species of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), a larval parasitoid of Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), along with some new host records of parasitoids from Peninsular India. Zootaxa, 3227: 54–63.