Brachymeria olethria
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chalcididae
Genus: Brachymeria
Name
Brachymeria olethria (Waterston, 1914) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chalcis olethria Waterston, 1914: 257 (♂, Nigeria, Ibadan, (BMNH) (examined)).
- Brachymeria olethria; Narendran 1989[1]: 245, 271.
- Brachymeria raoi Joseph, Narendran & Joy, 1972: 21 (♀, India (BMNH) (synonymised with Brachymeria oletria by Narendran 1989[1])).
Material
2 ♀ (BPBM), “Vietnam, 14.x.1960, C.M. Yoshimoto”.
Diagnosis
This species resembles Brachymeria menoni Joseph, Narendran & Joy, but differs from it in having: 1) scrobe not reaching anterior ocellus (in Brachymeria menoni scrobe reaches anterior ocellus); 2) AOL about 0.5 × of POL (in Brachymeria menoni AOL 0.3 × POL); 3) metasoma distinctly longer than pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum combined (in Brachymeria menoni metasoma shorter than pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum combined).
Description
♀, length of body 4.0–4.2 mm.
Colour. Black; tegulae pale yellowish brown; all coxae and trochanter black or brownish black; fore and mid femora black or brownish black with a pale reddish brown or yellow brown tip; hind femur completely black or brownish black with tip pale yellowish brown; fore and mid tibiae brownish black except the brownish black or brownish yellow tip; hind tibia brownish black or black with tip yellowish brown tip; all tarsi pale.
Head. Head with scrobe not reaching anterior ocellus; area below scrobe at middle fairly smooth but not clearly demarcated; length of eye 2.3 × its width; AOL about 0.5 × POL; interocular space a little over 2.3 × POL; pre- and post-orbital carinae present; post-orbital carina reaching geno-temporal margin; anterior genal angle nearly rectangular and rounded; hind genal angle rectangular. Antenna with scape not reaching anterior ocellus, longer than F1 to F3 combined; pedicel longer than wide; F1 almost as long as wide; F2, F3, F4 and F5 almost equal in length; clava about 2.1 × as long as F7, and about 1.6 × its width.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma reticulate, rounded, umbilicate and close pits; interstices of pits narrower than diameter of a pit, rugose; apex of scutellum weakly emarginate.
Wings. Fore wing 2.5–2.6 × as long as wide; MV a little shorter than half SMV; PMV a little shorter than half MV; STV about half of PMV.
Legs. Hind coxa without an inner ventro-mesal tooth; hind femur about 1.7 × as long as its width, without an inner basal tooth, outer ventral margin with a row 9–12 differently sized teeth.
Metasoma. Metasoma longer than pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum combined; hardly a little more than twice its height, highest at middle; T1 smooth and shiny, reaching middle length of metasoma; T2 micro-sculptured; T6 rugose with few punctures and sparse pubescence.
Male. Similar to ♀ except T1 with delicate reticulation medially; F1 wider than long; apex of scutellum rounded.
Hosts
Lepidoptera (Pyralidae; Gelechiidae, and Momphidae) and Hemiptera (Pseudococcidae) (Noyes 2011[2]).
Distribution
Africa, India, Vietnam, China, Malaysia (Borneo) and Indonesia (Java) (Joseph, Narendran & Joy 1973 and 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
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.
- ↑ Noyes J (2011) Universal Chalcidoidea Database. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids
