Revision of world Austroterobiinae and Parasaphodinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae), parasitoids of giant scales (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae)
Author
Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
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Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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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.