Hockeria argentigera Holmgren, 1868

Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 342-381 : 369

Hockeria argentigera Holmgren, 1868

( Figures 37, 38 )

Hookeria argentigera Holmgren 1868

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Sattari, Ambedem , 11 March 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas .

Description

Female, length of the body 4.8 mm.

Colour. Body black with fore and mid tarsi pale brown.

Head. Triangular, wider than long, scrobe flat with striations. Antennae long and slender. Pre- and postorbital carinae absent. Genotemporal furrow absent. POL 4× OOL.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate and interstices carinate. Scutellum emarginate and bilobed at the apex. Fore wing with 2 brown infuscations and a hyaline spot in the middle. Hind femur bilobed ventrally.

Metasoma. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 smooth and shiny with 2 basal carinae which are shorter than the distance between them.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record) Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal ( Emiliyamma 2016) .

Figures

Figure 37–42. Habitus: 37–38, Hockeria argentigera; 39–40, Hockeria manii; 41–42, Haltichella clavicornis.