Microplitis bageshri Sathe, Inamdar & Dawale, 2003

Gupta, Ankita, 2013, Revision of the Indian Microplitis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with description of one new species, Zootaxa 3620 (3), pp. 429-452 : 451

I. Microplitis bageshri Sathe, Inamdar & Dawale, 2003 incertae sedis

Comments. The original description was given in a private publication (Sathe, Inamdar & Dawale, 2003, 59–62). The types of M. bageshri Sathe, Inamdar & Dawale, 2003 (species reported from Indian region) could not be accessed. The description is inadequate and inappropriate especially with regard to propodeal characters and absence of fore wing areola.

Moreover the illustrations and the original description indicate that the species ‘ bageshri’ was initially misidentified as Microplitis . The original description states “Propodeum is without median carinae. With many lateral carinae, carinae are not complete and scattered, whole propodeum is rugose, setae are present areola absent, spiracle oval shaped, propodeum is broader than length. Tergite II is shorter than tergite III, tergite II is compactly attached to the tergite I, sulci are present on the tergite II. Fore wing is without an areola”.

Hence as the fore wing lacks an areolet and the propodeum lacks a median longitudinal carina then it is very much evident that the species was misidentified and incorrectly placed in Microplitis .