Embidobia orientalis Dodd, 1939

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 : 86-87

Embidobia orientalis Dodd, 1939

Figs 12B , 13

Diagnosis

Embidobia orientalis is close to E. omkara sp. nov. and E. hrdaya sp. nov. but differs from them in having a strongly coriaceous reticulate sculpture on T2 and T3; T2 is longer than T3. While in the latter two species T2 and T3 are with weak reticulate sculpture and both these tergites are subequal in length.

Material examined

Holotype (images only) SRI LANKA [labelled: Ceylon] • ♀; Colombo ; 7 Jan. 1939; C. Davis leg.; in nest of Oligotoma sp. ; [in the nest of Oligotoma greeniana Enderlin in bark ( Dodd 1939)]; QMBA T99253 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Body length = 0.85 mm.

COLOUR. Head and mesosoma brown-black; T1 brown, remaining tergites darker than T1; antennomeres yellow-brown, clava brown-black; legs yellow-brown. Entire body covered with dense stout white setae.

HEAD. OOL 1.4× median ocellus diameter. Central keel: not extending beyond half the length of distance to anterior ocellus. Sculpture of gena: smooth with long setae. Facial and malar striae: prominent. Sculpture of vertex: rugose.

MESOSOMA. Sculpture of mesoscutum: rugose. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: foveate. Scutoscutellar sulcus: foveate laterally. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: entirely rugose. Posterior mesoscutellar sulcus: foveate. Metascutellum when viewed dorsally: not visible, concealed beneath mesoscutellum. Sculpture of metascutellum: concealed beneath mesoscutellum. Posterior margin of metascutellum: not visible. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: smooth with foveae on posterior margin. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: smooth. Netrion: present, subovate, open dorsally. Netrion sulcus: costate. Pronotal suprahumeral sulcus: not foveate. Prespecular sulcus: with transverse foveae. Speculum of mesopleuron: transversely carinate. Episternal sulcus: foveate. Postacetabular sulcus: foveate. Mesepimeral sulcus: with transverse foveae. 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: indicated as a furrow. Marginalis ⅔ the length of stigmalis. Metasomal depression: predominantly smooth with weak longitudinal carinae medially.

METASOMA. L: W of metasoma: 1.4× as long as wide. Sculpture of T1: basal foveae present; almost entirely longitudinally striate and with a setose reticulate patch laterally. Sculpture of T2: coriaceous reticulate with a narrow smooth band posteriorly. Sculpture of T3: coriaceous reticulate with a narrow smooth band posteriorly. Length of T1:T2: T3: 6.8: 11.0: 9.2.

Male

Unknown.

Figures

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).

Fig. 13. Embidobia orientalis Dodd. 1939, holotype, ♀ (QMBA, T99253). A. Habitus dorsal view. B. Habitus lateral view. C. Metasoma. D. Vertex and pleuron. E. Type label. Photos: ©Queensland Museum, Geoff Thompson.