Oodera ahoma (Mani & Kaul, 1973)

Werner, Jennifer & Peters, Ralph S., 2018, Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63, pp. 73-123 : 80

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scientific name	Oodera ahoma (Mani & Kaul, 1973)
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Oodera ahoma (Mani & Kaul, 1973) View in CoL Figs 2a View Figure 2 , 5a View Figure 5 , 8a View Figure 8 , 11a View Figure 11 , 14a View Figure 14

Lycisca ahoma Mani & Kaul, 1973: 53-55.

Oodera ahoma ; Bouček et al. 1978: 448.

Diagnosis.

FEMALE (N = 1). Medium-sized (8.40 mm). Head and mesosoma dark blue to green-blue. Fore wing hyaline. Body slender (mesonotum 1.51 × as long as wide). Head round (1.41 × as high as long). Eyes small (0.57 × as high as head) (Fig. 8a View Figure 8 ). Corona medium (5.20 × as long as wide), structure continuous (Fig. 5a View Figure 5 ). Pronotum pentagonal with posterior part distinctly narrowing towards mesoscutum, with broadest part before midlength (Fig. 11a View Figure 11 ). Mesoscutellum normal (0.70 × as long as wide), anterior margin convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae more than 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.42), mesoscutellum lineate in anterior third to half, rugulose in posterior half or two thirds (Fig. 14a View Figure 14 ). Propodeum medium (0.13 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 14a View Figure 14 ). Profemur medium (2.04 × as long as wide). Marginal vein long (1.13 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma medium (0.47 × as long as body). Ovipositor short (0.11 × as long as metasoma) (Fig. 2a View Figure 2 ).

Redescription.

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 2a View Figure 2 , 5a View Figure 5 , 8a View Figure 8 , 11a View Figure 11 , 14a View Figure 14 ). Scape brown, darkening apically, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa dark brown, profemur dark green and blue, meso- and metafemur dark brown, tibiae light brown, tarsi yellow, except for brown last tarsal segments. Metasoma dark brown.

Head (Figs 5a View Figure 5 , 8a View Figure 8 ). Face completely reticulate. Head 1.39 × as wide as long. Head width 3.57 × eye distance. Malar space 0.43 × head height. Corona 0.71 × as long as eye height. POL 0.75 × OOL. Scape 2.31 × as long as pedicel. Clava length to funicule length not available. Flagellum length to head width not available.

Mesosoma (Figs 11a View Figure 11 , 14a View Figure 14 ). Pronotum 1.03 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.51 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.35 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 1.12 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.35 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.34 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 2a View Figure 2 ). Fore wing 3.00 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.38 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.20 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 3.10 × as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 2.76 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

Asia. India: female holotype, Lumding , Assam, leg. R.O., 25.05.1942, det. Mani and Kaul as Lycisca ahoma (USNM) (OAh01) .

Biology.

Hosts may be Agrilus sp. ( Buprestidae ) ( Noyes 2017) (unverified host record).

Distribution.

India.