Kriechbaumerella nepalensis Narendran, 1989

Narendran, T. C. & van Achterberg, Cornelis, 2016, Revision of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Vietnam, with the description of 13 new species, ZooKeys 576, pp. 1-202 : 111-113

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chalcididae

Kriechbaumerella nepalensis Narendran, 1989 Figs 163-164

Kriechbaumerella nepalensis Narendran, 1989: 72-73 (♀, lectotype Nepal, (CNC) examined).

Material.

1 ♀ (RMNH), "Vietnam: Ninh Thuân, Núi Chúa N. P., dry south part, Mal[aise] traps, 100-180 m. 22-29.v.2007, C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries, RMNH’07”.

Diagnosis.

Easily recognizable by the combination of the long antenna of ♀ (Fig. 163) and the medio-posteriorly distinctly V-shaped incised scutellum (Fig. 164).

Description.

♀, length of body 7.4 mm.

Colour. Black; trochanters, fore and middle tarsi, fore and middle femora (but basally and apically brownish yellow) black; fore wing infuscate near MV but with hyaline patch antero-medially (Fig. 163).

Head. POL 5 × OOL; antenna with scape reaching level of front ocellus; pre-orbital carinae distinct; post-orbital carina absent; geno-temporal furrow absent; scrobe including anterior ocellus.

Mesosoma. Apex of scutellum well produced posteriorly with a medial V-shaped emargination.

Wings. Fore wing with sclerotised part of PMV 0.3 × length of MV.

Metasoma. T1 smooth and strongly shiny, medio-basally impressed, but without pair of dorsal carinae; posterior margin of T1 straight; T2-6 largely finely granulate; T6 with superficial rugulosity; epipygium keeled medially, about as long as median length of T6; ovipositor sheath subequal in length to epipygium.

Male. Unknown.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

India, Nepal, Vietnam (new record for Vietnam).