Glyptapanteles trilochae Gupta, 2013
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Taxonomic placement
Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae
Brief diagnosis
Female: Body length = 1.23 mm. Body colour. Black. Fore and mid legs yellow except femora with little brownish tinge, hind legs with coxae black, trochantelli yellow brown, hind femora yellow with dorsal black patch at apex, apical half of hind tibiae with brown infuscation and tarsi with brownish tinge. All tarsal claws dark brownish black. All tibial spurs yellowish white. Scape and pedicel brown black dorsally and ventrally with yellow infuscation. Tegulae yellow brown. Mesosoma and metasoma black (except second tergum with lateral basal edges yellowish brown). Antenna brownish black, palpi yellow white, labrum yellow brown, mandibles yellow with dark brown apical edges, ovipositor dark brown, ocelli brown. Wings hyaline, fore wing veins translucent with dark brown pterostigma, C+SC+R brown; hind wing veins translucent.
Comments
Glyptapanteles trilochae is similar to two closely allied Indian species viz., G. spodopterae and G. hypermnestrae. It resembles G. spodopterae and in having hind wing vannal lobe evenly convex with long hair basally, but differs in having mid femur yellow with little brownish tinge (mid femur entirely black in G. spodopterae). Also differs in first metasomal tergum 3.5× basal width; widest basally and narrowest apically; faint sculpture in basal half, more pronounced on edges (first metasomal tergum 1.4× maximum width; smooth and shiny in G. spodopterae). Cocoon L/W (mm) = 1.87: 0.75; solitary in nature (cocoons 3 mm long; gregarious in G. spodopterae). This new species differs from G. hypermnestrae in following characters: first tergum narrowest apically in G. trilochae (first tergum smooth except for some very fine striations pre apically; apex much wider; widest preapically; apically narrower and curvaceous on lateral edges in G. hypermnestrae), and second tergite smooth, shiny, and more triangular in G. trilochae (second tergite smooth and subrectangular in G. hypermnestrae).
Geographical distribution
India.