Vernevania indica Kazmi et Rameshkumar, 2020

Kazmi, S. I., Rameshkumar, A. & Sheela, S., 2020, A NEW RECORD OF THE GENUS VERNEVANIA (HYMENOPTERA: EVANIOIDEA: EVANIIDAE) FROM INDIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES, Far Eastern Entomologist 411, pp. 21-24 : 22-23

Vernevania indica Kazmi et Rameshkumar , sp. n.

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TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype – male (on card), India: Karnataka, Coorg district , Tha-

lakkaveri Wildlife Sanctuary, 06.XI. 2013, col. P.M. Sureshan (Reg. no. NZC 23330/H3).

DESCRIPTION. MALE ( Fig. 1 ). Holotype. Length 3.3 mm. Body dark brown with silvery white setae throughout body except metasoma; mandible brownish; eyes silvery grey;

ocelli brownish yellow; scape brown; mesosoma dark brown; tegula pale brown; wings hyaline with brown venation; legs brown to dark brown; hind coxa nitid brown; tibial spur brown; petiole to dark brown.

Head ( Fig. 2 ). Head almost as wide as high; frontovertex 0.58× of head width; ocelli nearly equal in size; POL 2.0× of OAL; Clypeus smooth and without sculpture. Antennae arising upper half of face; ridge present between antennal sockets; scape 2.4× as long as wide and 3.0× as long as pedicel; pedicle quadrate. Relative measurements (in mm) – head width

(height), 1.28 (1.18); frontovertex width, 0.75; POL, 0.23; OAL, 0.11; scape length (width),

0.34 (0.14); pedicel length (width), 0.11(0.10).

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and metanotum broadly foveoated with sparsely setose; mesoscutum 2.0× wider than long; metanotum 6.2× wider than long and

0.30× as long as scutellum; mesopleuron convex; propodeum areolate with uniformly silvery white hairs; a pair of keel-like structure on propodeum at origin of petiole ( Fig. 5 ). Fore, mid and hind leg, 1.6×, 2.2× and 3.3× mesosoma height respectively; hind coxa with groove; hind femur as long as hind tibia; hind tibia as long a mesosoma height; interior spur of tibia 1.4×

as long as exterior spur; tarsal claws 0.5× as long as 5th tarsomere. Relative measurements (in

mm) – mesosoma height, 1.45; mesoscutum length (width),0.47 (0.94); scutellum length,

0.39; metanotum length (width), 0.12; (0.75); fore leg length, 2.28; mid leg length, 3.24; hind leg length, 4.86; hind femur length, 1.37; hind tibia length,1.41; hind tarsomeres 1–5 length,

1.31; interior tibial spur length, 0.21; exterior tibial spur length, 0.15; tibial claw length,

0.07; 5th tarsus length, 0.15.

Wings ( Fig. 3 ). Fore wing veins 2M, 3M, r-m (except origin point) spectral; fore wing

2.8× as long as wide; hind wing 4.0× as long as wide; 1st submarginal cell pentagonal in shape; origin point of r-m distinctly marked in 1 st marginal cell; marginal cell 2.8× as wide as high; hamuli with 4 hooks; jugal lobes present on both wings. Relative measurements (in

mm) – fore wing length (width), 3.25 (1.16); marginal cell width (height), 0.56 (0.31); hind wing length (width), 1.69 (0.41).

Metasoma ( Fig. 4 ). Petiole 3.6× as long as wide; metasoma ovoid in shape. Relative measurements (in mm) – petiole length (width), 0.52(0.15); metasoma length, 1.45.

head in frontal view; 3 – fore wing; 4 – metasoma with petiole; 5 – propodeum showing a keel-like structure.

FEMALE. Unknown.

HOSTS. Unknown.

DIAGNOSIS. Male of Vernevania indica sp. n. is similar to V. urbanusorum . The dif-

ferences between these two species are given in the Table 1.

DISTRIBUTION. India: Karnataka.

ETYMOLOGY. The species is named after the country where the type specimen was collected.

Figures

Figs 1–5. Vernevania indica Kazmi et Rameshkumar, sp. n., male. 1 – lateral habitus; 2 –