Brachymeria hime
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chalcididae
Genus: Brachymeria
Name
Brachymeria hime Habu, 1960 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Brachymeria hime Habu, 1960: 199–201 (holotype ♀, Japan (NIAS)), 1962: 58–61 (redescription); Narendran 1989[1]: 247, 264 (comments and keyed).
Material
(RMNH, IEBR). 1 ♀, “S. Vietnam: Ninh Thuân, Núi Chúa N. P., northeast part, Malaise traps, 90–150 m, 23–30.v.2007, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries, RMNH’07”; 1 ♀, “S. Vietnam: Dóng Nai, Cát Tiên N. P., Dong trail. Malaise traps, c. 100 m, 1–8.iv.2007, Mai Phu Quy & Nguyen Tanh Manh, RMNH’07”; 1 ♀, id., but 19–25.iv.2007; 1 ♀, id., but 9.iv.–13.v.2007, M.P. Quy, N.T. Manh & C. v. Achterberg; 1 ♂ + 1 ♀, id., but 13–20.v.2007, Botanical Garden, Malaise traps 14–19, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries, RMNH’07.
Diagnosis
This species resembles Brachymeria secundaria Ruschka in colour and appearance, but differs from it in having: 1) well developed pre-orbital carina (in Brachymeria secundaria pre-orbital carina almost indistinct); 2) scrobe reaching anterior ocellus (in Brachymeria secundaria scrobe not reaching anterior ocellus); 3) eyes less convex than of Brachymeria secundaria and 4) scutellum low in profile (scutellum high in profile in Brachymeria secundaria).
Description
♀, length of body 3.5–5.8 mm.
Colour. Black; tegula clear yellow; coxae black; trochanters brown or black; femora black with apices yellow; tibiae yellow with a black band or patch in middle dividing yellow area into anterior and posterior parts, often connected dorsally in fore and mid tibiae; pubescence silvery.
Head. Head slightly wider than mesosoma, scrobe reaching anterior ocellus; pre- and post-orbital carinae present; post-orbital carina reaching geno-temporal margin; interantennal projection thin; area below scrobe coarsely punctate; POL distinctly longer than twice OOL; antenna with scape not reaching anterior ocellus.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma with close umbilicate pits, interstices subcarinate and reticulate; apex of scutellum rounded; dorsal margin of pronotal panel well arched; hind coxa without an inner ventro-mesal tooth; hind femur without an inner basal tooth, outer ventral margin with a raw of irregular teeth.
Wings. Fore wing with PMV one-third as long as MV; SMV twice as long as MV.
Metasoma. Metasoma sessile, slightly longer than (or equal to) mesosoma; T1 smooth, its posterior margin straight; ovipositor sheath and epipygium as in figure 37 of Joseph et al. (1973)[2].
Male. Similar to ♀ except for stouter antenna and shorter metasoma.
Hosts
Grapholitha molesta Busck (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae); Eutectona machaeralis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Nephoteryx eugraphella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Phyticidae) (Habu 1962[3]; Sudheendrakumar 1986[4]; Narendran 1989[1]).
Distribution
India, Nepal, China (including Taiwan), Philippines, Vietnam (new record) and Japan (Narendran 1989[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Narendran, T; van Achterberg, C; 2016: Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species ZooKeys, (576): 1-202. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Narendran T (1989) Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Zoological Monograph. Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 1–441.
- ↑ Joseph K, Narendran T, Joy P (1973) Oriental Brachymeria. A monograph on the Oriental species of Brachymeria (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). University of Calicut, Zoology Monograph 1: 1–215.
- ↑ Habu A (1962) Chalcididae, Leucospidae and Podagrionidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) – Fauna Japonica. Biogeographical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 232 pp.
- ↑ Sudheendrakumar V (1986) Studies on the natural enemies of the teak pests, Hyblaea puera and Eutectona machaeralis. Research Report, Kerala Forest Research Institute 38: 1–23.
