Austroterobia maldica Narendran & Das

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2017, Revision of world Austroterobiinae and Parasaphodinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), parasitoids of giant scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 4301 (1), pp. 1-63 : 20

Austroterobia maldica Narendran & Das

( Figs 1, 2 in Narendran & Das 2000: 320)

A. maldica Narendran & Das, 2000: 319 –321; holotype possibly in ZSIK, not examined.

Diagnosis. Both sexes: head with at most slight metallic reflections; legs pale yellow; inner margins of eyes not sinuate; gena conspicuously depressed at mouth corner; malar sulcus slightly indicated; POL about 1.3× OOL; toruli closer to median ocellus than to ventral margin of clypeus; scape not reaching median ocellus; basal two teeth of right mandible large and wide apart; notauli deep only in anterior third of mesoscutum; marginal vein more than 8× as long as broad ( Narendran & Das 2000).

Austroterobia maldica most closely resembles the newly described A. achterbergi ( Figs 1–10 ). For main differences between the two species, see the remarks section of the latter species.

Distribution. India ( Narendran & Das 2000).

Biology. Reared from Icerya sp. ( Hemiptera : Margarodidae ) on Mango tree ( Narendran & Das 2000).

Remarks. Noyes (2016) stated that “ According to Narendran (pers. comm., 17th May 2004) the primary type of this species is deposited in Western Ghats Regional Station , Zoological Survey of India, Calicut , Kerala ”. However , according to Sureshan (pers. comm., 13th October 2016), the holotype could not be found in that collection.

Figures

FIGURES 1, 2. Austroterobia achterbergi, holotype ♀: 1, habitus, lateral view; 2, habitus, dorsal view.

FIGURES 3 – 10. Austroterobia achterbergi: 3, holotype ♀, head, frontal view; 4, paratype ♀, Borneo, head, dorsal view; 5, holotype ♀, head, lateral view; 6, holotype ♀, antennae; 7, paratype ♀, Vietnam, mesosoma, dorsal view; 8, holotype ♀, mesosoma, lateral view; 9, paratype ♀, Vietnam, propodeum and petiole, dorsal view; 10, paratype ♀, Borneo, fore wing.