Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S., 2020, A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 1-51 : 30-31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CBB2E456-150B-4D8F-AC3E-4F6D13217C6C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4404114

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E1757B-5A49-FFAD-FF3E-F91BA4C6F99F

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scientific name

Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004
status

 

Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004

( Fig. 56 View FIGURE 56 )

Megischus ptosimae sensu van Achterberg, 2002 , Zool. Verh. Leiden, 339, 141–144.

Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004 , Zool. Meded. Leiden, 78 (3), 115.

Type material. Holotype, ♀, India: Tamil Nadu, ĽTiruvannamalai district, Annamalai Hills , (10°18’N & 77°0’E, 1067m), v.1969, Coll. P.S. Nathan, ( CNC) CNC Type No. 23675 ( OSUC 0021726 View Materials ) Digital loan examined. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Body length 23.5 mm; ovipositor sheath length 25.85 mm; fore wing length 13.7 mm. Antenna with 43 antennomeres; frons dorsally with strong up curved rugae and coarsely transversely rugose frontally; vertex with three strong regular carinae followed by a coarse densely reticulate flattened area; temples smooth, rounded and narrowed behind eyes; occipital carina strongly developed, reaching lower level of eyes; neck anteriorly deeply emarginate; pronotum with three robust curved carinae anteriorly, followed by four weak carinae posteriorly; pronotum posteriorly convex; convex part of metapleuron coarsely reticulate; propodeum coarsely and densely foveolate with wide smooth interstices; vein 1-M 7.4× vein 1-SR and 1.2× vein m-cu; vein 2-SR 1.1× vein r; hind coxa rather slender, spindle-shaped; hind femur swollen and robust, bidentate ventrally; hind tibia steeply depressed at base on the outer side of widened part; first metasomal tergite 12.4× as long as its maximum width; ovipositor sheath 1.1× length of body, with a long subapical ivory part, ivory part 1.3× as long as dark apical part.

Male. Unknown.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. Oriental ( India: Tamil Nadu).

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Stephanidae

Genus

Megischus

Loc

Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S. 2020
2020
Loc

Megischus alveolifer

van Achterberg 2004
2004
Loc

Megischus ptosimae

sensu van Achterberg 2002
2002
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