Acanthormius indicus Gupta & Quicke
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Holotype
Female, on card.
Holotype ♀, INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, Hebbal, 13.03°N 77.59°E, 10.viii.2011, ex: caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae), coll. S.K. Rajeshwari, code - NBAIR/Brac/Acan/10811A (NBAIR). Paratypes: 4♀, 10.viii.2011, same collection locality as holotype, codes - NBAIR/Brac/Acan/10811B (NBAIR).
Paratype 1♀, 10.viii.2011, same data and host individual as holotype, to be deposited in Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.
Runs in the key by van Achterberg (1995) to the Indian species
A. balanus Papp 1986, but the new species differs in malar suture 0.68× as long as height of eye (vs equal in
A. balanus). Differs from the other Indian species in the following characters: ovipositor sheath about 0.7× as long as combined length of second and third tergite (vs equal in
A. bakeri);
antennomeres 18−20 (vs 16 in
A. gilvus and 21 in
A. propensus); pterostigma 5× as long as wide (vs 7× in
A. obstitus); ovipositor much shorter than metasoma (vs equal in
A. alius).
Ankita Gupta & Donald L. J. Quicke. 2018. A new species of
Acanthormius (Braconidae: Lysiterminae) reared as a gregarious parasitoid of psychid caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from India.
Zootaxa 4388 (3): 425-430.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.8.
