Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee, 1988

Ikram, Mohsin, Yousuf, Mohammad & Prasad, Rajendra, 2023, Two new species of Tumidiclava Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Trichogrammatidae) along with key to Indian species, Zootaxa 5374 (4), pp. 594-600 : 597

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.4.10

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10169502

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scientific name

Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee
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2. Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee View in CoL ( Figs. 6–10 View FIGURES 6–10 )

Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee, 1988: 109 View in CoL .

Redescription: Female. Length. 0.50 mm. Head with fronto-vertex bright yellow having few setae; eyes and ocelli bright red, Mandibles brown. Antennae with scape cylindrical, pedicel and club pale brown. Midlobe of mesoscutum and scutellum light brown. Fore wings hyaline densely setose, STV rudimentary.

Head: (facial view) ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 6–10 ) slightly longer than wide (172: 149). Eyes and ocelli dark red; ocelli arranged in obtuse triangle, POL about 1.75X as long as OOL (28: 16), eyes 2.8X as long as MS (90: 32); mandible with tri-denticles. Antennae ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 6–10 ) with scape about 3.6X as long as broad (78: 22); pedicel 1.95X as long as broad (47: 24); two ring segments present; club 3-segmented (C1, C2 and C3), 2.56X as long as broad (95: 37), C3 longest segment.

Mesosoma: ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 6–10 ) Midlobe of mesoscutum about 1.55X wider than long (118: 76) with 2 pairs of short setae present on dorsal surface; midlobe of scutellum 1.7X wider than long (109: 64) with 2 pairs of setae, dorsellum 0.5X of the propodeum length medially. Fore wings ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 6–10 ) hyaline densely setose, 2.32X as long as wide (534: 230), STV rudimentary, MV, 2.6X as long as broad (455: 175), marginal fringe 1/6 of maximum FWW (38: 230), SMV 1.9X longer than MV (94: 49).

Metasoma: Gaster longer than mesosoma; ovipositor about 1.42X as long as hind tibia (187: 131).

Specimen examined: 1♀ on slide, INDIA, Bihar, Muzaffarpur , 19.vi.2018, coll. M. Ikram; ex. Sweeping (accession, no NFIC-22158) .

Host: Unknown.

Distribution: INDIA: Uttar Pradesh; Bihar.

Comments: Tumidiclava longiclavata, Yousuf & Shafee (1988) is very similar to T. magnicorpa, Yousuf & Shafee (1988) but differ from it by having antennae with club 3-segmented, more than 2.5X as long as wide. During the present study some additional characters of female: head, mesosoma and gaster have been studied in detail.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Trichogrammatidae

Genus

Tumidiclava

Loc

Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee

Ikram, Mohsin, Yousuf, Mohammad & Prasad, Rajendra 2023
2023
Loc

Tumidiclava longiclavata Yousuf & Shafee, 1988: 109

Yousuf, M. & Shafee, S. A. 1988: 109
1988
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