Habitus in dorsal view

Habitus in lateral view

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Mesosoma

Metasoma


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Megaprosternum cleonarovorum Gupta & Azevedo
(Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Holotype
Male, on card
"INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, Hebbal, 13.03°N 77.59°E, 23.viii.2016, ex: Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) on the host plant Ixora coccinea L., coll. S.K. Rajeshwari, code - NBAIR/Beth/Mega/23816A (NBAIR)"
Allotype: 1 female (same data as the holotype), code - NBAIR/Beth/Mega/23816 B (NBAIR).
Paratypes: 4 females, 1 male 20.vii.2016, same collection locality as holotype, codes - NBAIR/Beth/Mega/20716B (NBAIR); 5 females, 1 male, 17.ix.2016, same collection locality as holotype; codes - NBAIR/Beth/Mega/17916B (NBAIR).
Ankita Gupta; Rajeshwari S.K. & Azevedo, Celso O. 2017. Biology and description of Megaprosternum cleonarovorum sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India. Zootaxa 4237(1): 078–090.




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