Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae

Apanteles javensis Rohwer, 1919

Female: Black; antennae, tegulae, hind legs largely, mid legs except apex of femora, front legs at base of femora, basal ventrites, lateral membranous margins of first gastral tergite, deep red; rest portion of legs red testaceous. Basal part of hind tibiae lighter than apical part. Stigma pallid with margins brown. Propodeum with areola well marked in the apical half; areola shining. Ovipositor sheath in length equal to basal joint of the hind tarsus. First tergite of metasoma narrow apically and broad basally; punctuate along the marginal third in apical half (except at apex); second tergite completely smooth and shining.

This species can be easily confused with A. baoris Wilkinson which is also a larval parasitoid of P. mathias and has been reported earlier from Indian subcontinent (Orissa and southern parts of India), Malaysia and Ceylon. It can be separated from the latter with the ovipositor sheaths rather longer than the hind tibiae in the case of A. baoris.

India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand & Vietnam.

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. & Kalesh, S. (2012). Reared parasitic wasps attacking hesperiids from Western Ghats (Kerala, India) with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as a larval parasitoid of Thoressa evershedi (Evans) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zootaxa, 3413: 29–43.

Gupta, A., Pereira, B. & Churi, P.V. (2011). Illustrated notes on some reared parasitic wasps (braconidae: microgastrinae) with new host and distribution records from India along with reassignment of Glyptapanteles aristolochiae (Wilkinson) as a new combination. Entomological News, 122(5): 451-468.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3157/021.122.0507