Acmopolynema orchidea Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, 2007

Manickavasagam, Sagadai, Palanivel, Selvaraj & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2017, Two new species and additional distributional records of Acmopolynema Ogloblin (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (33 - 34), pp. 1971-1987 : 1983

Acmopolynema orchidea Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, 2007

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Material examined

INDIA, Tamil Nadu, Salem , Yercaud, 11.49°N, 78.10°E, YPT 16 February 2014, S . Palanivel , coffee plantation (1 ♀ on card, EDAU); 24 September 2014, S . Palanivel , coffee plantation (1 ♀ on slide, EDAU); 31 January 2016, S . Palanivel , forest (3 ♀ on cards, EDAU); 1 February 2016, S . Palanivel , coffee plantation (1 ♀ on slide, EDAU); 1 February 2016, S . Palanivel, M. Ayyamperumal, M. Avinkumar , coffee plantation (5 ♀ on cards, EDAU) .

Distribution

India (new record) and Taiwan ( Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy 2007).

Comments

All the Indian specimens more or less match with the original description of A. orchidea except for the metacoxa being reticulate. The original description only stated that ‘Coxae [are] mostly smooth’ ( Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy 2007, p. 32). However, when the holotype of A. orchidea was re-examined by the third author, the following can be added to the original description of A. orchidea : metacoxa partially with a weak reticulate sculpture ( Figure 7f ).

Figures

Figure 7. Acmopolynema orchidea Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy: (a) habitus (♀ from Tamil Nadu, India); (b) hind leg (♀ holotype).