Charops obtusus obtusus Morley

Gupta, Ankita, Churi, Paresh V., Sengupta, Ashok & Mhatre, Sarang, 2014, Lycaenidae parasitoids from peninsular India with description of four new species of microgastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) along with new insights on host relationships, Zootaxa 3827 (4), pp. 439-470 : 455

Charops obtusus obtusus Morley ( Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae )

Plates. X (Figs 35−36); XI (37−41).

Brief diagnosis. Body colour black (Fig. 35). Scape, all coxae and first metasomal tergite black, underside of fore femur with a brownish mark, metasoma largely black. Sixth metasoma1 a tergite black. Propodeum with distinct median carina. Mid femur blackish in middle.

Host. Tajuria cippus (Fabricius) ( Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae ) on Loranthus sp.

Material examined. Four females, INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, 06.ix.2012, coll. Ankita Gupta, ex. larva of Tajuria cippus (Fabricius) ( Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae ) on Loranthus sp., NBAII /Ichn/Char/obt/60912.