Pambolus (Phaenodus) ignarus Papp Figs 1-3

Pambolus (Phaenodus) ignarus Papp, 1996: 46; Yu et al. 2016.

Material examined.

2 females, "INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Aurriya, 23.IX.03; coll. M Shamim (ZDAMU)". 1♀, "INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh, 09.X.01; Coll. Zubair Ahmad (ZDAMU)".

Remarks.

Pambolus (Ph.) ignarus is known among all the Oriental species by its smaller size and almost absence of notauli, which is hardly impressed on the anterior part of mesoscutum and without any crenulation. A brief diagnosis is as follows: body length 1.8 mm long; forewing length 1.9 mm; ground color of head brownish yellow; meso- and metasoma rusty brown; antennae unicolor (yellowish brown); head in dorsal view less transverse 1.7 × as broad as long; eye 4.0 × as long as temple; antenna nearly 2.0 × as long as body and with 25 segments; F1 5.0 × as long as broad apically; face polished; notauli hardly distinct on disc of mesonotum; mesonotum finely granulose; propodeal spines short, as long as half of third tarsomere of hind tarsus; forewing vein r arising beyond middle of pterostigma; ovipositor sheath as long as hind basitarsus.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

India: Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh (Papp 1996).