Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
Author
Gupta, Ankita
Author
Lokhande, Swapnil A.
Author
Soman, Abhay
text
Zootaxa
2013
3701
2
277
290
journal article
43151
10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8
9a113815-f9cf-4110-a4ce-652e03246ce9
1175-5326
249275
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Charops plautus
Gupta & Maheshwary
from host
Udaspes folus
(Cramer)
(
Figs. 17, 18 & 19
)
The solitary pupal parasitoid
Charops plautus
Gupta & Maheshwary
was reared from the host
Udaspes folus
Gupta & Maheshwary (1970)
. No male specimens were bred and the species was identified based on females.
Udaspes folus
is the first host record of the parasitic wasp genus
Charops
.
Brief diagnosis
: This species has following characters: scape and pedicel ventrally yellow; tegula pale yellow. Mesopleuron reticulate rugose; malar space 0.7× basal width of mandible; inter-ocellar distance 3× ocello-ocellar distance; fore coxa with a mix of black and yellow patches; trochanter pale yellow and femur yellow brown medially; tarsus pale yellow. Mid leg with coxa black; trachanter pale yellow; femur yellow brown with very faint black infuscation on dorso-apical region.
Hind
leg with coxa black; femur yellow brown with a black patch ventrally in basal half; hind tibia yellow brown with apical 1/4th black; tarsi brown with basitarsus darker; tibial spurs pale yellow. Metasoma with petiole black except at extreme apical region. Second tergite yellow brown with apical margin black; rest metasoma yellowish brown.
Specimens examined
: Two females, Powai, IIT-Bombay,
Mumbai
, Maharashtra,
India
;
19.12°N
72.91°E
, elevation
50 m
(
160 ft
),
22.ix.2012
, bred from pupa of
U. folus
(Grass Demon)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Hesperiidae
), coll. Swapnil Lokhande & Abhay Soman; NBAII/Brac/Micro/
Charops
/plau/0912. All specimens deposited in NBAII.