Embidobia barbarika 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 : 67-69

Embidobia barbarika Veenakumari sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Embidobia barbarika sp. nov. is close to E. procera sp. nov. but differs from it in having a short, wide interantennal process and carinae on upper frons continuous and elongate; whereas in E. procera interantennal process is elongate and narrow and carinae on upper frons are short and oblique.

Etymology

The species epithet refers to Barbarika, the little known, invincible warrior in the Hindu epic Mahabharatha, who was convinced by the god Krishna to abstain from participating in the war between the Kuru cousins at Kurukshetra.The name is treated as a noun in apposition.

Material examined

Holotype INDIA – Karnataka • ♀; Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval ; 13°05′41″ N, 77°32′35″ E; 921 m; 18 Apr. 2013; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5063 .

Paratypes INDIA – Arunachal Pradesh • 1 ♀; Pasighat, College of Horticulture and Forestry (CHF) ; 28°04′28″ N, 95°19′28″ E; 173 m; 5 May 2014; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5075 . – Karnataka • 1 ♀; Bengaluru, Attur ; 13°05′48″ N, 77°33′59″ E; 936 m; 15 Mar. 2014; PFT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5064 • 1 ♀; Bengaluru, Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra (GKVK) ; 13°04′25″ N, 77°34′49″ E; 938 m; 22 Dec. 2014; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5065 • 1 ♀; Bengaluru, Hesaraghatta ; 13°08′01″ N, 77°29′27″ E; 859 m; 26 Mar. 2014; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5066 • 1 ♀; Tumkur, Kunigal ; 13°01′31″ N, 77°01′31″ E; 803 m; 10 Jan. 2014; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5067 . – Kerala • 2 ♀♀; Kasaragod, CPCRI ; 12°31′29″ N, 74°57′52″ E; 6 m; 20 Feb. 2015; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5073 , P5074 . – Odisha • 3 ♀♀; Bhubaneswar, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) ; 20°15′52″ N, 85°48′50″ E; 45 m; 31 Jan. 2016; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5068 to P5070 . – Tamil Nadu • 1 ♀; Hosur, Uddanapalli ; 12°37′28″ N, 77°55′29″ E; 758 m; 31 Jan. 2015; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5071 • 1 ♀; Dindugul, Thandikudi, Regional Coffee Research Station (RCRS) ; 10°18′34″ N, 77°38′34″ E; 1305 m; 26 Nov. 2016; YPT; NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5072 .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Body length = 0.92–1.10 mm (n = 10).

COLOUR. Head, mesosoma and metasoma yellow except brown-black metascutellum; radicle, A1, A3– A7 yellow-brown, remaining antennomeres black-brown; legs yellow-brown.

HEAD. Head: 1.3 × as wide as high, 1.3 × as high as long. IOS: 0.5 × head width, 1.1× eye length. OOL: 0.5× width of median ocellus. Compound eye: ovate (L:W = 15.1: 12.6). Sculpture of frons: lower frons medially smooth with several short uneven carinae on either side; several short transverse carinae present dorsal to central keel; carinae on upper frons continuous and elongate. Central keel: 0.5 × head height. Sculpture of gena: predominantly smooth with long setae. Facial and malar striae: prominent. Sculpture of vertex: with short transverse carinae. Interantennal process: short, truncate posteriorly.

MESOSOMA. L:W of mesoscutum: 16.1: 25.1. Sculpture of mesoscutum: imbricate. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: with a furrow. Mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: indicated with a furrow. Scutoscutellar sulcus: foveate laterally. L: W of mesoscutellum: 9.0: 6.5. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: rugose with a smooth patch anteromedially. Posterior mesoscutellar sulcus: foveate. Metascutellum when viewed dorsally: visible. Sculpture of metascutellum: smooth with foveae on anterior margin. Posterior margin of metascutellum: convex and extending posteriorly. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: entirely longitudinally costate with foveae in between. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: dorsally imbricate, ventrally smooth.Netrion: present, smooth, linear. 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: obliquely foveate. Postacetabular sulcus: foveate. Mesepimeral sulcus: with transverse foveae. Mesepimeral area: smooth, narrow. Mesopleural carina: present. Sculpture of femoral depression: smooth. Mesopleural pit: present. Sculpture of metapleuron: smooth. Metapleural sulcus: with transverse foveae. Paracoxal sulcus: indicated by a furrow. Metapleural epicoxal sulcus: indicated by transverse carinae and furrows. Anteroventral extension of metapleuron: 2 × as long as wide. L:W of fore wing: 77.3: 30.6. Infuscate patch on fore wing: present as a longitudinal patch medially. Ratio of length of m: pm: stg: 4.3: 9.3: 17.2. Metasomal depression: longitudinally costate except for smooth areas laterally.

METASOMA. L: W of metasoma: 34.7: 28.4. Sculpture of T1: basal foveae present; longitudinally costate, costae extending 0.7 × length of tergite, posteriorly smooth and laterally with a setose reticulate patch. Sculpture of T2: anteromedially with a narrow smooth band followed by basal foveae; medially longitudinally weakly striate; posteriorly smooth and laterally with a setose reticulate patch. Sculpture of T3: reticulate with posterior margin smooth. Length of T1:T2:T3: 3.5: 13.6: 9.7.

Male

Unknown.

Figures

Fig. 2. Wings. A. Embidobia agastya Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5001). B. E. barbarika Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5063). C. E. brittanica Girault, 1917, lectotype, ♀ (USNM, Type No. 2060). D. E. dooranetra Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5103). E. E. gauriputra Veenakumari sp. nov. holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5076). F. E. hrdaya Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5114). G. E. jatayu sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5028). H. E. mahabali Veenakumari sp. nov. holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5038).

Fig. 3. Embidobia barbarika Veenakumari sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (NIM, ICAR-NBAIR P5063). A–B. Habitus dorsal view. C. Head and pleuron. D. Frons. E. Antenna.