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 56975B48-5F81-47FF-A8DC-F1ABE05EAAEC 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.