Platygaster indica (Mani) Talamas & Thompson & Cutler & Schoenberger & Cuminale & Jung & Johnson & Valerio & Smith & Haltermann & Alvarez & Schwantes & Blewer & Bodenreider & Salzberg & Luo & Meislin & Buffington, 2017

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 189-190

Platygaster indica (Mani) comb. n. Figures 7-8

Sacepalus indicus Mani, 1975: 75 (original description, spelling error).

Sacespalus indicus Mani: Mani and Sharma 1982: 213 (description); Vlug 1995: 74 (cataloged, type information); Buhl 2009: 901 (keyed).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=12100

Material examined.

Holotype, female: INDIA: Maharashtra, Mahabaleshwar , 16.IX.1971, Mani, USNMENT01109916 (deposited in USNM).

Comments.

This species clearly does not belong in Sacespalus Kieffer (Figures 9-11 ): it has distinct felt fields on S2, A2 is not lamellate, and it lacks the robustly crenulate orbit of the compound eye. Despite the flattened state of the specimen, the characters of this specimen are surprisingly accessible.

Figures

Figures 7 - 8. Platygaster indica (Mani), holotype female (USNMENT 01109916) 7 head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 8 head, mesosoma, metasoma, ventral view. Scale bars in millimeters.

Figures 9 - 11. Sacespalus 9 female (OSUC 334129), head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 10 female (OSUC 334129), head, anterior view 11 female (OSUC 240805), head and mesosoma, lateral view. Scale bars in millimeters.