Pteromalus puparum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae

Female: Length 2.6 mm. Body dark metallic blue, antennae with scape testaceous, remainder brown. Coxae concolorous with mesosoma, femora dark brown except tips and remainder of legs testaceous with tips of tarsi brown. Tegulae dark brown, wings hyaline, veins pale brown.

Head moderately reticulate, setae short and sparse. Antennae with scape reaching level of vertex; F1 longer than pedicel; funicular segments longer than wide; clava almost equal to two preceding segments combined. Mesosoma reticulate punctuate; pronotal collar distinctly narrower than head. Propodeum moderately reticulate medially, lateral area finely reticulate, median carina faintly indicated; plicae complete, nucha long. Forewing with basal part almost bare, costal cell hairy on the upper part, basal hairline indicated. Metasoma ovate, shorter than head plus mesosoma combined.

 Anntena
 Mesosoma
 Metasoma

 Female - dorsal, lateral view
 Male - lateral view

Cosmopoliton. India: Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarankhand, Bihar and Assam.

Parasite in pupae of various Butterflies esp. Papilio sp.