Scientific name
Pachyneuron nelsoni Girault, 1928
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae
Diagnosis
Body dark brown to black; antenna dark brown. Head finely reticulate; anterior margin of clypeus weakly emarginated. Antenna with 2 anelli, flagellar segments wider than long; scape not reaching median ocellus. Mesosoma finely reticulate. Fore wing hyaline; without marginal fringe; discal ciliation very sparse; indistinct; post marginal vein slightly longer than stigmal vein; marginal vein strongly thickened. Metasoma with transverse petiole.
Image
Adult - lateral view
Distribution
India: Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh.
Biology / Hosts
Syrphid puparia.
References
- Girault, A.A. 1928. A prodigeous discourse on wild animals. pp.2 private publication, Brisbane.
- Noyes, J.S. 2014. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
- Sureshan, P.M. 2003. Pteromalinae (Pteromalidae: Chalcidoidea: Hymenoptera) of Indian subcontinent. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 205: iii+170pp.
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