Hadronotus cookeae Veenakumari, 2024

Kamalanathan, Veenakumari, Kolla, Sreedevi, Khan, Farmanur Rahman & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2024, Hadronotus insulare species group (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) with descriptions of new species from India, Journal of Natural History 58 (45 - 48), pp. 2121-2187 : 2137-2140

Hadronotus cookeae Veenakumari sp. n.

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( Figures 5 (a–g), 26(d))

Female body length = 1.45–1.71 mm (n = 11). Male body length = 1.41–1.56 mm (n = 5).

Colour. Head, mesosoma and metasoma black; coxae black-brown, remainder of legs brown; clypeus and mandible red-brown; radicle, A1–A6, basal half of A7 brown, remaining antennomeres brown-black.

Head. 1.3× as wide as high, 1.8× as high as long. IOS: 0.6× head width, 1.4× eye length. POL: LOL: OOL: 21.4: 11.8: 2.1. OOL: 0.8× MOD. Compound eye: ovate (L: W = 21.6: 18.1). Sculpture of orbital furrow: foveate, except for rugose sculpture basally. Inner orbits in frontal view: converging dorsally. Central keel on frons: present, extending half the length of frontal depression. Malar sulcus: with rectangular depressions. Shape of frontal depression: ovoid. L: W of frontal depression: 25.1: 17.0. Width of frontal depression: 0.7× IOS. Sculpture of frontal depression: transversely carinate, space between carinae smooth in dorsal half; space between carinae in ventral half smooth, with polygonal cells bearing rugose sculpture on either side. Submedian carina of frontal depression: restricted to dorsal half. AOD in dorsal view: 3.2× OOL. Sculpture of frons sans frontal depression: polygonal cells with rugose sculpture, setose. Sculpture of vertex: polygonal cells with rugose sculpture, setose. Hyperoccipital carina: present. Sculpture of gena: polygonal cells with rugose sculpture.

Mesosoma. L: W of mesoscutum: 29.8: 39.2. Sculpture of mesoscutum: polygonal cells with rugose sculpture, densely setose. Scutoscutellar sulcus: foveate. L: W of mesoscutellum: 15.3: 33.7. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: polygonal cells with rugose sculpture, sparsely setose posterolaterally. Posterior mesoscutellar sulcus: foveate. Sculpture of metascutellum: anteriorly foveate, posteromedially bidentate, not extending onto T1 posteromedially. Posterior margin of metascutellum: bidentate. Sculpture of metanotal trough: foveate. Lateral propodeal area: laterally wide and narrowing centrad. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: with depressions. Posterior propodeal projection: short and pointing posteriorly. Pronotal cervical sulcus: with depressions. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: dorsally with polygonal cells, medially rugose to smooth, ventrally weakly reticulate. Prespecular sulcus: transversely foveate. Sculpture of speculum: transversely carinate interspersed with sparse foveae. Femoral depression: dorsally with semicircular carinae and rugose sculpture between carinae, ventrally unevenly foveate. Episternal sulcus: foveate. Postacetabular sulcus: with depressions. Mesepimeral sulcus: unevenly foveate. Sculpture of posterior mesepimeral area: narrow and smooth. Mesopleural carina: absent. Mesopleural pit: present. Metapleural sulcus: with large depressions. Sculpture of dorsal metapleural area: foveate, densely setose. Sculpture of ventral metapleural area: rugose, densely setose. Paracoxal sulcus: with irregular depressions. L: W of fore wing: 94.8: 37.7. Ratio of length of m: st: pm: 4.2: 9.6: 8.0. L: W of hind wing: 77.3: 20.1. Length of hind wing marginal cilia: 0.25× width of wing. Shape of submarginalis: distant from anterior margin of wing with a slight dip before reaching marginalis.

Metasoma. L: W of metasoma: 58.9: 44.5, 1.3× as long as wide. Anterior margin of T1: medially and laterally weakly projecting. Basal foveae on T1: present. Sculpture of T1: longitudinally costate, space between costae rugose; posteriorly smooth. Sculpture of T2: reticulate; basal foveae absent. Length of T2: 5.2× length of T3. Sculpture of T3–T4: anteriorly smooth with sparse punctae, medially coriaceous reticulate, posteriorly smooth. Setation of metasoma: laterally densely setose and sparsely setose posteriorly.

Male. Similar to female. Length of A1–A 12 in ratio of 28.3: 8.3: 7.8: 6.7: 6.1: 8.3: 8.3: 7.8: 8.3: 8.3: 8.3: 13.3, respectively.

Material examined

Holotype, female ( ICAR / NBAIR / P4913 ), INDIA: Assam: Jorhat, Assam Agriculture University ( AAU), 26.724°N, 94.193°E, ca 90 m, YPT, cabbage plot, 2 March 2017 . Paratypes: five females ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4914–P4918), Assam: Jorhat, Assam Agriculture University ( AAU), 26.724°N, 94.193°E, ca 90 m, YPT, cabbage plot, grass, 2 March 2017; one female ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4919), Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Little Andaman, Harminder Bay, 10.565°N, 92.542°E, ca 40 m, SN, 29 January 2013; one female ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4920), Assam: Sontipur, Biswanath College of Agriculture ( BNCA), Dryland agriculture farm, 26.724°N, 94.193°E, ca 100 m, YPT, 22 February 2017; one female ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4921), Karnataka, Shivamogga, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences ( UAHS), Naville, 13.973°N, 75.578°E ca 610 m, YPT, in paddy ( Oryza sativa : Poaceae ) field, 17 January 2017; one female ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4922), Karnataka: Srirangapatna, 12.423°N, 76.682°E, ca 680 m, SN, 12 May 2011; one female ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4923), Karnataka: Mudigere, Horticulture College (HC), 13.115° N, 75.632°E, ca 970 m, YPT, 29 September 2015; four males ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4924–P4927), Karnataka: Mandya, 12.521°N, 76.895°E, ca 750 m, YPT, 12 September 2016; one male ( ICAR / NBAIR /P4928), Karnataka: Mudigere, 13.115°N, 75.632°E, ca 810 m, YPT, 1 October 2015.

Etymology

This species is named after Lucy Cooke, a unique combination of a professionally trained biologist cum television producer–director–presenter, and author of bestselling natural history books; who with wit, perspicacity and wisdom has been bringing before the public the findings of cutting-edge science and demolishing many long-held myths in biology from aspects of the lives of organisms like sloths to the Darwinian view of sexual selection with its inherent Victorian biases. The name is treated as a noun in the genitive case.

Diagnosis

This species is distinct with large (0.5× MOD) uniformly shaped and sized reticulations on T2.