Apanteles hemara Nixon, 1965

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Holotype information.

♀; India (NHM).

Examined material.

Images of the holotype were examined alongside images of verified specimens held in the CNC. The redescription in Fernández-Triana et al. (2017) was also consulted to form the diagnosis.

Diagnosis.

Apantles hemara is particularly distinctive amongst the other species of Apanteles in Australia. It can be distinguished from other species with a dark metacoxa and pale trochanter by the T 2 entirely sculptured with strong longitudinal striae, the T 1 slightly widening on posterior 1 / 2 and entirely and coarsely sculptured, and propodeum mostly smooth but with complete and strong lateral carinae.

Notes.

The record of A. hemara occurring in Australia comes from the original description of Nixon (1965) where he lists a specimen from the “ F. C. T. [ACT] ”. However, we have not located or examined the specimen, which we assume would be located in the NHM or potentially ANIC. Regardless, we did not collect any conspecific specimens in Australia during this study. Apanteles hemara is reported to parasitise several species of moths in the families Choreutidae and Crambidae, including species which occur in Australia.