Odopoia Walker, 1871

Xiao, Hui, Jiao, Tianyang & Hu, Tingyu, 2012, Description of two new species of Odopoia Walker, 1871 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae) from China, with a key to known species, Zootaxa 3239, pp. 35-42 : 36

Odopoia Walker, 1871

Odopoia Walker, 1871: 36 . Type species: Odopoia atra Walker , by monotypy. Ashmead, 1904: 245; Bouček, 1978: 130; Bouček, 1988: 148; Narendran, 1994: 26; Grissell, 1995: 102, 224.

Australtorymus Girault, 1925: 97 . Type species: Australtorymus dentatinotus Girault , by monotypy. Synonymized by Bouček, 1988: 148.

Ua Girault, 1929: 2. Type species: Ua maria Girault, by monotypy. Synonymized by Bouček, 1988: 148.

Pauliana Risbec, 1952: 375 . Type species: Pauliana philippiae Risbec , by monotypy. Synonymized by Bouček, 1978: 130.

Diagnosis. Body stout, thorax convex. Head and thorax finely punctured; head as broad as thorax. Antenna stout, clavate. Pronotal collar reticulate, rectangular ( Fig. 3 ), slightly narrower than mesoscutum, and separated from collum by slight to distinct cross-edge. Propodeum glabrate with median carina. Hind femur without ventral teeth. Fore wing with postmarginal vein much shorter than marginal vein, as long as or slightly longer than stigmal vein ( Figs 9 , 13–16 ). Petiole dark, slender and sculptured, as long as scutellum. Gaster ( Figs 1 , 6, 10, 12 ) smooth dorsally and in female short-elliptical, dorsally arched, and slightly compressed; ovipositor at most as long as thorax.

Biological notes. Biology unknown except O. philippiae reared from flower-galls on Philippia sp. ( Ericaceae ) in Madagascar ( Risbec 1952).

Distribution. Asia ( China (Hainan Island), India, N. Borneo, Philippines, Sri Lanka), Southern Africa and Madagascar, and Australia.

Remarks. Girault (1925) established Australtorymus in Callimomidae (= Torymidae ) and Ua in Miscogasteridae ( Pteromalidae ). Bouċek (1988) considered the two genera as junior synonyms of Odopoia within Odopoiini ( Toryminae ), whereas Grissell (1995) classified Odopoia in Torymini . Odopoia is distinguished from other genera of Torymini by the presence of a long, sculptured, dark petiole, a pronotum with the collar having a slight to distinct cross-edge, the hind femur non-dentate, and a postmarginal vein that is much shorter than the marginal vein.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Odopoia jianfengica Xiao et Jiao sp. nov. 1. Body lateral, female. 2. Head and antennae frontolateral, female. 3. Head and thorax dorsal, female. 4. Head and thorax dorsolateral, female. 5. Fore wing dorsal, female.

FIGURES 6 – 12. Odopoia wenchangica Xiao et Hu sp. nov. 6. Body lateral, female. 7. Head and antennae frontal, female. 8. Head and thorax dorsolateral, female. 9. Fore wing dorsal, female. 10. Gaster dorsolateral, female. 11. Head and antennae frontal, male. 12. Body dorsolateral, male.

FIGURES 13 – 16. Fore wing of Odopoia species, female. 13, O. dentatinota (from Bouček, 1988); 14, O. josephinae (from Bouček, 1988); 15, O. reticulata (from Sureshan, 2007); 16, O. jianfengica Xiao et Jiao sp. nov.