Scientific name

Chalcura aeginetus (Walker)

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae: Eucharitinae

Diagnosis

Female: Antenna with teeth on flagellar segments 3-5; mesosoma with strong sculpture. Head, mesosoma, all coxae and petiole green. Mandibles, antennal scape, legs except coxae yellow; antennal clava yellowish brown, the rest of antenna brown; all femora with a tint of brown; metasoma yellowish brown with tip dark brown. Wing veins brown with a brownish cloud around stigmal vein.

Male: Posterior part of scapulae reticulate punctate. Head, mesosma, coxae and petiole shining green. Antennal scape, mandibles, tegulae and legs except coxae yellow; the rest of antenna brown. Metasoma brownish yellow. Fore wing with a brownish cloud around stigmal vein.

female head Female - head
female head & mesosoma Female - head & mesosoma

Images

Adult male  Adult female Adult lateral view - male, female

Distribution

Philippines (Hedqvist, 1978) and India (Gupta & Manickavasagam, 2013).

References

  • Hedqvist, K. J. 1978. Some Chalcidoidea collected in the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands: II. Eucharitidae, with keys and check-lists of Indo-Australian genera (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Steenstrupia, Copenhagen, 4(20): 227-248.
  • Gupta, A. & Manickavasagam, S. 2013. Taxonomic notes on a collection of Indian Eucharitidae (a family of ant parasitoids) with description of female of Schizaspidia andamanensis (Mani) from Andaman islands, India. Journal of Biological Control 27(2): 73-80

Credits

Images and factsheet prepared by Dr. Ankita Gupta, Scientist, NBAII.