Embidobia omkara Veenakumari, 2024

Veenakumari, Kamalanathan, Kolla, Sreedevi, Sushil, Satya Nand, Samuel, Duleep Kumar, Khan, Farmanur Rahman & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2024, Embidobia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) of the Indian region with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 970, pp. 61-101 : 83-86

Embidobia omkara Veenakumari sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Embidobia omkara sp. nov. is close to E. hrdaya sp. nov. but differs from it in having a longer metasoma and mesoscutellum just extending up to the posterior margin of metascutellum; while in the latter species metasoma is distinctly short and mesoscutellum extends beyond the posterior margin of metascutellum.

Etymology

This species is named after Omkara, the Hindu god of the sacred, invocatory sound ‘om’, a sonic representation of the divine. The name is treated as a noun in apposition.

Material examined

Holotype INDIA – Karnataka • ♀; Mandya ; 12°33′51″ N, 76°44′01″ E; 749 m; 7 Jan. 2017; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5084 .

Paratypes INDIA – Karnataka • 4 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5085 to P5088 • 10 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 16 Jul. 2016; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5089 to P5098 • 4 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5099 to P5102 .

Description

MEASUREMENTS. Female body length = 1.15–1.27 mm (n = 8); male body length = 0.92–1.13 mm (n = 4).

Female

COLOUR. Head and mesosoma brown-black; T1 brown-yellow; remaining tergites brown with sparse black patches sublaterally and laterally; radicle, A1–A7 yellow-brown, remaining antennomeres black-brown; legs yellow-brown.

HEAD. Head: 1.4 × as wide as high, 1.3 × as high as long. IOS: 0.6 × head width, 1.3× eye length. OOL: 1.2× width of median ocellus. Compound eye: ovate (L: W = 15.2: 10.5). Sculpture of frons: lower frons medially smooth with several short uneven longitudinal carinae on either side; several short transverse carinae present dorsal to central keel; upper frons with imbricate sculpture. Central keel: 0.4× head height. Sculpture of gena: smooth with long setae. Facial and malar striae: prominent. Sculpture of vertex: rugose. Interantennal process: short, pointed posteriorly.

MESOSOMA. L:W of mesoscutum: 18.2: 27.6. Sculpture of mesoscutum: rugose, smooth posteromedially. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: indicated with a furrow. Mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: not foveate. Scutoscutellar sulcus: foveate laterally. L: W of mesoscutellum: 11.4:21.8. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: rugose, smooth medially and posteriorly. Posterior mesoscutellar sulcus: foveate. Metascutellum when viewed dorsally: only posterior margin visible. Sculpture of metascutellum: concealed beneath mesoscutellum. Posterior margin of metascutellum: semicircular. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: smooth with foveae on posterior margin. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: dorsally imbricate, ventrally smooth. Netrion: present, subovate, open dorsally. Netrion sulcus: costate. Pronotal suprahumeral sulcus: not foveate. Pronotal cervical sulcus: indicated as a furrow. Prespecular sulcus: foveate. Speculum of mesopleuron: transversely carinate. Episternal sulcus: foveate. Postacetabular sulcus: indicated as a furrow. Mesepimeral sulcus: foveate. Mesepimeral area: smooth. Mesopleural carina: present. Sculpture of femoral depression: smooth. Mesopleural pit: present. Sculpture of metapleuron: smooth. Metapleural sulcus: with transverse foveae. Paracoxal sulcus: not distinct. Metapleural epicoxal sulcus: indicated by transverse carinae and furrows. L:W of fore wing: 74.0:25.4. Infuscate patch on fore wing: present as a longitudinal patch medially. Ratio of length of m: pm: stg: 4.8: 26.2: 7.5. Metasomal depression: predominantly smooth with weak longitudinal carinae medially.

METASOMA. L:W of metasoma: 48.3: 32.1. Sculpture of T1: basal foveae present; longitudinally striate except for smooth patch posteriorly and a setose reticulate patch laterally. Sculpture of T2: weakly reticulate with posterior margin smooth and setose reticulate patch laterally. Sculpture of T3: reticulate and smooth posteriorly. Length of T1:T2:T3: 9.1: 11.5: 11.6.

Male

Similar to female except for the length of antennomeres.

Figures

Fig. 11. Embidobia omkara Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5084). A–B. Habitus dorsal view. C. Head and pleuron. D. Frons. E. Antenna.

Fig. 12. Wings. A. Embidobia omkara Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5084). B. E. orientalis Dodd, 1939, holotype, ♀ (QMBA T99253). C. E. procera Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5055). D. E. sankirna Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5122). E. E. saroma Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5110). F. E. yuyutsu Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5112).