Phanuromyia kakatiya Veenakumari, 2021

Veenakumari, Kamalanathan, Kolla, Sreedevi, Mohanraj, Prashanth & Khan, Farmanur Rahman, 2021, Revision of Indian species of Phanuromyia Dodd, 1914 (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) with descriptions of new species, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 68 (2), pp. 309-339 : 309

Phanuromyia kakatiya Veenakumari sp. nov.

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Material examined.

Holotype, female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4323), India: Himachal Pradesh: Palampur , 76°32'10"N, 32°06'39"E, YPT, 20.IX.2014 . Paratype: 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4324), Tamil Nadu: Yercaud, Horticulture Research Station (HRS), 11°47'44"N, 78°12'42"E, 1399 m, YPT, 06.VIII.2016 .

Diagnosis.

This species is close to P. satavahana sp. nov. but differs from it in having entirely coriaceous reticulate mesoscutum and fore wing >6 × as long as wide while in P. satavahana sp. nov. striae on T2 culminate in reticulations, and fore wing is <4 × as long as wide.

Description.

Female body length=1.02-1.12 mm (n=2).

Colour. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma black-brown; radicle, A1-A3 brown, A4-A7 yellow, A8 yellow with black patches, A9-A11 black-brown; procoxa brown-black, meso- and metacoxae brown-yellow, remainder of all legs yellow-brown.

Head. Head 1.3 × as wide as high, 1.3 × as high as long; IOS 0.5 × head width, 0.9 × eye length; frons coriaceous reticulate with a smooth patch medially; central keel present (discontinuous, weakly indicated, with transverse carinae radiating on either side); vertex weakly transversely reticulate; gena weakly reticulate, with a smooth patch basally; eye (L: W=15.5:13.0) large, setose; POL: LOL in ratio of 11.3:5.2; lateral ocelli contiguous with orbits; hyperoccipital carina absent;occiput coriaceous reticulate, with sparse setae; A1 4.7 × as long as wide; A1 2.3 × as long as A2.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum (L: W=16.9:25.3) convex, entirely coriaceous reticulate, reticulations longitudinal posterosublaterally; mesoscutal humeral sulcus not foveate; mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus not foveate; lateral pronotal area dorsally coriaceous reticulate, remainder obliquely striate-reticulate; epomial carina present; pronotal suprahumeral sulcus weakly foveate, setose; netrion sulcus foveate, foveae weakly impressed; subacropleural sulcus with two foveae; prespecular sulcus with seven foveae; mesopleural pit shallow; weak striae and a row of foveae are present ventral to mesopleural pit; speculum transversely carinate; episternal sulcus foveate; postacetabular sulcus not foveate; femoral depression smooth; ventral mesopleuron reticulate; mesepimeral sulcus foveate; mesepimeral area smooth, narrower than width of mesepimeral sulcus; metapleural sulcus foveate; paracoxal sulcus foveate; dorsal metapleural area smooth; ventral metapleuron punctate; metapleural epicoxal sulcus with large depressions; scutoscutellar sulcus laterally foveate; mesoscutellum semicircular (L: W=6.8:14.6), smooth, setose; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus foveate; metascutellum anteriorly foveate, remainder weakly rugose; metanotal trough foveate; lateral propodeal area sparsely punctate with a large depression; entire lateral propodeal carina visible posterior to metascutellum when viewed dorsally; fore wing (L: W=61.6:22.3) and hind wing (L: W=55.6:8.5) hyaline with dense microtrichia; ratio of length of marginalis: stigmalis: postmarginalis 2.2:8.7:17.4 respectively.

Metasoma. (L: W=37.6:22.1); T1 with longitudinal foveae, laterally and posteriorly smooth; T2 anteromedially smooth, basal foveae present, followed by several longitudinal striae culminating in weak punctae; remaining tergites weakly punctate to smooth; posterior margin of T2 slightly convex; T1 with two lateral and one sublateral setae; T2 4.3 × the length of T1.

Male. Not known.

Etymology.

This species is named after the Kakatiya dynasty that flourished in parts of what is today Andhra Pradesh in the 12th century CE. The name is treated as a noun in apposition.

Figures

Figure 7. Phanuromyia kakatiya sp. nov. (♀). A. Habitus (dorsal view); B. Frons; C. Head and pleuron; D. Head and mesonotum; E. Antenna; F. Wings.