Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Female: Body length = 2.83 mm. Diagnosis. Propodeum areola 1.19× longer than wide; vein 1r and 2Rs joining smoothly in a curve; anterior diagonal carinae of propodeum shallowly merging anterior margin of propodeum. Hind tibia (0.71) 2.29× longer than exserted part of ovipositor (0.31). First metasomal tergal wider than long; first tergum length/apical width (0.39/0.46) = 0.85, with distinct coarse punctations and rugosity; second tergum rugose like first, wider than long; second tergum median length 1.18× of third tergum. Ovipositor sheaths curved and hairy in half of exserted portion; gently decurved, projecting beyond apex of gaster.

India.

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