Phanuromyia kadamba Veenakumari, 2021

Veenakumari, Kamalanathan, Kolla, Sreedevi, Mohanraj, Prashanth & Khan, Farmanur Rahman, 2021, Revision of Indian species of Phanuromyia Dodd, 1914 (Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) with descriptions of new species, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 68 (2), pp. 309-339 : 309

Phanuromyia kadamba Veenakumari sp. nov.

Fig. 6A-F

Material examined.

Holotype, female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4258), India: Karnataka: Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval , 13°05'41"N, 77°32'35"E, 921 m, MT, 19.IX.2014 . Paratypes: 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4259), Meghalaya: Umiam, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region , maize crop, 25°40'52"N, 91°54'56"E, 970 m, YPT, 08.VI.2013 ; 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4260), Assam: Kamrup , 26°18'57"N, 91°35'54"E, 54 m, SN, 30.X.2008 ; 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4261), Tripura: Dhuptali Kukibari , 23°40'37"N, 91°44'37"E, 42 m, SN, 07.III.2016 ; 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4262), Tamil Nadu: Kanyakumari, Pechiparai , 8°14'23"N, 76°33'34"E, 17 m, SN, 13.XI.2011 ; 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4263), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Hebbal , emerged from an unidentified heteropteran egg on Ficus sp., 13°02'08"N, 77°35'49"E, 906 m, 22.IX.2017 ; 10 females, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4271-P4280), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Hebbal , 13°02'08"N, 77°35'49"E, 906 m, reared from eggs of unidentified heteropteran eggs laid on the midrib of a leaf of Tabebuia sp., 16.XI.2015 ; 1 female, (ICAR/NBAIR/P4281), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Hebbal , 13°02'08"N, 77°35'49"E, 906 m, reared from an egg of unidentified heteropteran eggs laid on the midrib of a leaf of an unidentified plant, 05.X.2016 .

Diagnosis.

Phanuromyia kadamba sp. nov. is close to P. hoysala sp. nov. The distinguishing characters are given under the latter species.

Description.

Female body length=1.15 mm-1.38 (n=15).

Colour. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma black-brown; radicle yellow, A1-A2 brown-yellow, A3-A7 yellow-brown, remaining antennomeres black-brown; procoxa brown-yellow, meso- and metacoxae yellow; remainder of legs yellow-brown.

Head. Head 1.2 × as wide as high, as high as long; IOS 0.5 × head width, 0.9 × eye length; frons entirely coriaceous reticulate except for a smooth medial patch, ventral to which transverse striae radiate on either side along imaginary central keel; central keel absent; vertex transversely coriaceous reticulate; gena coriaceous reticulate, except for smooth basal patch; eye (L: W=14.2:11.8) large, with short setae; POL: LOL in ratio of 8.4:4.8; lateral ocelli contiguous with orbits; hyperoccipital carina absent; occiput coriaceous reticulate with elongate setae; A1 3.7 × as long as wide; A1 3 × as long as A2.

Mesosoma. Mesoscutum (L: W=18.3:24.8) convex, coriaceous reticulate, setose; mesoscutal humeral sulcus foveate; mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus not foveate; lateral pronotal area dorsally coriaceous reticulate, remainder obliquely striate; epomial carina present; pronotal suprahumeral sulcus not foveate; netrion sulcus entirely foveate; subacropleural sulcus indicated by two foveae; prespecular sulcus indicated with seven foveae; mesopleural pit distinct; speculum transversely carinate; episternal sulcus foveate; postacetabular sulcus foveate; femoral depression smooth to weakly reticulate with an additional parallel depression ventrally; ventral mesopleuron smooth with a weak anterior reticulate patch; mesepimeral sulcus foveate; mesepimeral area smooth, narrower than width of mesepimeral sulcus; metapleural sulcus foveate; paracoxal sulcus foveate; dorsal metapleural area smooth; ventral metapleuron smooth with a blunt vertical carina; metapleural epicoxal sulcus weakly foveate; scutoscutellar sulcus laterally foveate; mesoscutellum semicircular (L: W=6.1:16.6), smooth, setose; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus foveate; metascutellum with two transverse rows of foveae; metanotal trough weakly foveate; lateral propodeal area smooth with foveae on inner margin; medial lateral propodeal carina not visible as hidden beneath metascutellum when viewed dorsally; fore wing (L: W=63.1:22.6) and hind wing (L: W=55.2:7.8) hyaline with dense microtrichia; ratio of length of marginalis: stigmalis: postmarginalis 3.5:8.7:17.0, respectively.

Metasoma. (L: W=44.3:22.1); T1 with basal foveae and a band of longitudinal foveae ventrad; between these two bands of foveae several vertical carinae present medially; T1 laterally and posteriorly smooth; T2 with large basal foveae, followed by longitudinal striae, culminating in a small patch of reticulations; remaining tergites punctate; posterior margin of T2 slightly convex; T1 with two lateral and a sublateral setae; T2 2.1 × the length of T1.

Male. Not known.

Etymology.

This species is named Kadamba after the minor South Indian dynasty that ruled the area northwest of the city of present day Mysore city between the 4th and 6th centuries CE.The name is treated as a noun in apposition.

Host.

Reared from unidentified heteropteran eggs laid within the midribs of leaves of Ficus sp., Tabebuia sp., and an unidentified plant.

Figures

Figure 6. Phanuromyia kadamba sp. nov. (♀). A. Habitus (dorsal view); B. Frons; C. Head and pleuron; D. Head and mesonotum; E. Antennae; F. Wings.