Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chalcididae

Brachymeria jambolana Gahan, 1942 Figs 42-43

Brachymeria jambolana Gahan, 1942: 41 (♀, holotype, India (USNM), examined); Narendran 1989: 243, 273 (keyed).

Material.

1 ♀ (RMNH), "S. Vietnam: Dóng Nai, Cát Tiên N. P., c. 100 m, 9-26.iv.2007, Crocodile tr[ail], Mal. traps, Mai Phu Quy & Nguyen T. Manh, RMNH’07”; 1 ♂ (IEBR), id., but 9.iv.-19.v.2007.

Diagnosis.

This species is very close to Brachymeria euploeae (Westwood) in colour, but differs from Brachymeria euploeae in having the metasoma not globose or subglobose (as in Brachymeria euploeae) and the ovipositor sheath is visible in dorsal view (in Brachymeria euploeae ovipositor sheath not visible in dorsal view).

Description

(female from Cát Tiên N. P.). ♀, length of body 4.3-4.9 mm.

Colour. Black; antenna black or dark brown; tegula, apical half of fore femur, apical one-third of mid femur, a large spot at apex of hind femur, fore and mid tibiae entirely, and all tarsi yellow. Hind tibia yellow with a narrow band at extreme base and the ventral carina, black. Pubescence on body grayish white and dense on front of head.

Head. Head with pre-orbital carina absent or hardly distinct; post-orbital carina present and reaching geno-temporal margin; antennal clava slightly shorter or at the most as equal to twice length of preceding segment;

Mesosoma. Pits on mesosoma close and interstices carinate and rugose; apex of scutellum rounded or slightly entire. Dorsal margin of pronotal panel slightly arched.

Wings. Fore wing with PMV 0.33-0.36 × length of MV; SMV slightly shorter than twice MV.

Legs. Hind coxa without ventro-mesal tooth; hind femur without an inner basal tooth, outer ventral margin with a row of irregular teeth.

Metasoma. Metasoma sessile but very short petiole visible; subacute and ovate; T1 smooth and shiny; its posterior margin straight; following tergites weakly shagreened.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts.

Danaus sp. ( Lepidoptera: Danaidae); Orgya postica (Walker) ( Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae); Cerea subtilis Walker ( Lepidoptera: Noctuidae); Papilio agamemnon (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) (Howlader 1979; Narendran 1986).

Distribution.

India, Vietnam (new record); Indonesia (Java and Sumatra) (Noyes 2011).