Spinaria indica Gupta & van Achterberg, 2024

Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Reddy, P. Maheshwara & Sushil, S. N., 2024, Review of the subtribe Spinariina van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) from India with description of one new species, Zootaxa 5399 (4), pp. 347-364 : 349-355

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10516993
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C48792-FFC3-5A40-FF4A-FA2C7AEBF845
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scientific name	Spinaria indica Gupta & van Achterberg
status	sp. nov.

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Spinaria indica Gupta & van Achterberg , sp. nov.

( Figs 1–4 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 )

Type material. Holotype. Female on card (antennae partially broken and hind legs missing); India: Nagaland: Medziphema ; handpicked from fruit of Litchi chinensis Sonn. ; 12.vi.2023; coll. P. Maheshwara Reddy; code— NIM/ NBAIR / Hym / Brac / Spin /120623-H (NIM). Partaype- one male on card; same data as holotype; code—NIM/ NBAIR /Hym/Brac/Spin/80723-P1 (NIM). Female (holotype). Body length of body 12.8 mm, of fore wing 12.4 mm, ovipositor 0.7 mm.

Head.—Length of scapus 1.4 × as long as its maximum width ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ), 1.9 × as long as third antennomere; third and fourth antennomeres almost subequal in length; diameter of lateral ocellus (OD) 1.1 × as long as POL and about 0.7 × as long as OOL; diameter of antennal sockets about twice distance between them and 1.9 × as long as distance from socket to eye margin; distance between tentorial pits 1.6 × as long as distance from pit to eye margin; malar space 0.4 × as long as height of eye and about equal to basal width of mandible; width of face 1.2 × as long as height of eye and 1.3 × as long as height of face and clypeus combined.

Mesosoma.—Spine on pronotum robust and strongly curved ( Fig. 2F View FIGURE 2 ); notaulus deep anteriorly, wide and shallow posteriorly; scutellar sulcus about 0.74 × as long as length of scutellum; mesopleuron polished and smooth; propodeum with median carina in majority, baso-lateral areas of propodeum smooth and its apical half rugose ( Fig. 2E View FIGURE 2 ).

Wings.—Fore wing: vein 2-SR 2.5 × as long as vein r, 0.7 × as long as 3-SR and about 0.4 × as long as SR1; vein r-m almost straight ( Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ); vein cu-a about 1.9 × as long as 1-CU1. Hind wing with vein 2-SC+ R as long as wide; vein M+CU subequal to vein 1-M.

Metasoma.—Dorsal face of first tergite 0.6 × as long as its apical width and 1.2 × as long as second tergite ( Fig. 2G View FIGURE 2 ); first tergite with a median carina dorsally; first–third tergites with dense rugosity and coarse granulation; length of ovipositor sheath 0.7 mm in length.

Colour.—Yellow; antenna blackish brown, but scape and pedicel yellowish brown; ocelli with brownish black margins; fore and middle telotarsus dark brown; hind leg of male entirely black except for light brown trochantellus; parastigma, and veins 1-SR and 1-SR+M basally, black; apical third of wing membrane dark brown (marginal cell, second and third submarginal cells fully infuscated or nearly so); propodeum with lateral and apical margin brown; large round median patch on first and second tergites dark brown, dark patch on second tergite narrowed posteriorly, first and second tergite whitish yellow laterally; third and fourth tergites black; fifth tergite white ( Fig. 2C View FIGURE 2 ).

Male (paratype ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 ). Body length of body 14.4 mm, of fore wing 11.2 mm.

Head.—Length of scapus 1.2 × as long as its maximum width, 1.2 × as long as third antennomere; third and fourth antennomeres almost subequal in length; diameter of lateral ocellus (OD) 3.5 × as long as POL, lateral ocelli touching the eye margins; diameter of antennal sockets about 1.4 × as long as distance between them and 5.7 × as long as distance from socket to non-indented eye margin and 1.9 × as long as distance from socket to indented eye margin; distance between tentorial pits 2.1 × as long as distance from pit to eye margin; malar space 0.2 × as long as height of eye and 1.5 × as long to basal width of mandible; width of face (at indented eye margin) 0.8 × as long as height of eye and 0.7 × as long as height of face and clypeus combined.

Mesosoma.—Spine on pronotum robust and gently curved apically; notaulus deep; mesopleuron polished and smooth; propodeum with median carina in basal one-third, large median areola in posterior two third and irregular coarse rugosity.

Wings.—Fore wing: vein 2-SR 2.0 × as long as vein r, 0.7 × as long as 3-SR and about 0.5 × as long as SR1; vein r-m almost slightly bent. Hind wing with vein M+CU 0.9 × as long as 1-M.

Metasoma.—Dorsal face of first tergite 0.6 × as long as its apical width and 1.2 × as long as second tergite; first tergite with a median carina dorsally; first–fourth tergites with coarse longitudinal striations.

Hind legs.—Hind femur 5.0 × as long as its maximum width ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ); hind tibia 1.1 × as long as hind femur and as long as hind tarsus; hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tarsus; second hind tarsal segment 0.47 × as long as basitarsus; fourth tarsal segment 0.5 × as long as hind telotarsus.

Colour.—Eyes large and bulbous, brownish black. Antenna blackish brown, but scape and pedicel yellowish brown. Lateral ocelli almost touching eye margins (in dorsal view); ocelli yellowish brown, inter-ocellar region blackish brown; mesosoma yellowish brown, propodeum with dark brown tubercles and lateral dark brown patch; wings colouration similar to female; first and second tergite dark brownish black (darker region wider when compared to that of female) with thin whitish yellow lateral margin; third and fourth tergites black; fifth tergite white.

Comments. Spinaria indica differs from S. vietnamica in having diameter of antennal sockets about twice as long as distance between them (vs 1.4 × in S. vietnamica ); malar space nearly as long as basal width of mandible (vs 0.4 × in S. vietnamica ), vein cu-a of fore wing about 1.9 × 1-CU1 (vs 2.3–2.5 × in S. vietnamica ); ovipositor sheath 0.7 mm (vs 1.2 mm in S. vietnamica ); marginal cell, second and third submarginal cells fully infuscated (vs basal half of marginal cell and second submarginal cell yellowish in S. vietnamica ).