Pardoteleia prater Kozlov and Lê

Kamalanathan, Veenakumari & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2016, A new Indian species of Pardoteleia Kozlov & Lê (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae: Scelioninae) and first description of the male, Zootaxa 4158 (4), pp. 592-600 : 595-598

Pardoteleia prater Kozlov and Lê

http://bioguid.osu.edu/xbiod_concepts/5061 Figures 8–23

Pardoteleia prater Kozlov & Lê, 1988: 70 (original description); Johnson, 1992: 458 (cataloged, type information); Lê, 2000: 164 (description, type information).

Description. Female: Body length = 1.1 mm (m= 1.074 mm (0.98–1.13mm); SD=0.06, n=5)

Color: Head and mesosoma honey brown; eyes grey ( Fig. 8 ); black patches present on inner margin of posterior ocelli and posterior margin of anterior ocellus; A1–A2 yellow with uneven patches of brown; A8–A12 brownish black; radicle honey brown; mandibular teeth dark brown; a faint dark brown patch present on mesoscutum postero-medially and laterally; all legs pale yellow; metasoma with shades of yellow and brown; a postero-lateral dark brownish black patch present on T2 and T3; T4 postero-laterally with a dark brown patch which merges with the brown band on posterior half of T4; remaining tergites dark brown.

Head ( Figs 9, 11–13 ): FCI=1.35; LCI=1.08; head setose; IOS 0.43× width of head, shortest anterior to anterior ocellus; frons and vertex finely reticulate; central keel short, 0.21× height of head; interantennal process beak-like; length and width of mandible and clypeus in ratio of 9.2:3.4 and 4.2:3.0 respectively; compound eye (L:W=15:13) sparsely setose; lateral ocelli contiguous with compound eye; POL>LOL in ratio of 7.4:3.5; length and width of antennomeres A1–A 12 in ratio of 15.8:4.0, 6.0:3.0, 3.5:2.8, 2.5:2.8, 1.5:2.5, 1.5:2.8, 1.8:4.3, 3.8:5.5, 3.5:6.5, 3.5:6.0, 3.5:5.5, 5.0:4.3, respectively; radicle 0.26× length of A1; A1 reticulate coriaceous; clava with a few long white setae arranged in rows dorsally, in addition to dense dark brown setae. Mesosoma ( Figs 12, 15 ): Mesoscutum (L: W=16.3:24.2) and mesoscutellum (L: W=7.5:15.8) finely reticulate, setose; lateral pronotal area smooth to faintly reticulate; netrion spindle shaped; mesepimeral sulcus foveate; mesepimeral carina present, almost reaching mesopleural pit; metapleuron predominantly smooth, metapleural pit distinct; metapleural sulcus foveate dorsally; mesoscutellum semicircular; scutoscutellar sulcus weakly foveate; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus foveate; metascutellum triangular; metanotal trough foveate; propodeum with lateral propodeal area sparsely setose; posterior propodeal projections extending as blunt spines. Fore wing (L: W=61.6:22.6) and hind wing (L: W=56.9:11.3) hyaline, with short microtrichia; fore wing with a proximal narrow and a distal broad black band ( Fig. 14 ); a row of 13 dark stout bristles present on the submarginalis, marginalis and postmarginalis; cilia on posterior margin of fore wing 0.08× width of wing; hind wing marginal cilia 0.47× width of wing; a faint black band present basally on fore wing; length of submarginalis: marginalis: stigmalis: postmarginalis in ratio of 26.8:5.3:8.1:9.0.

Metasoma ( Figs 8, 10 ) (L: W=40.7:24.8); T1 costate the entire length; T2 antero-medially with a smooth band, beneath which a row of basal foveae present; costae extending from these basal foveae up to the posterior margin where a smooth transverse band is present; T3 antero-medially smooth with weak reticulations, remainder of T3 reticulate, most of which are vertical; rest of tergites weakly reticulate with smooth posterior margins; T1 with 2 lateral setae; T2–T3 sparely setose sublaterally; T4–T5 with a single row of long transverse setae; length and width of tergites T1–T 6 in ratio of 5.4:9.6, 6.9:17.9, 14.1:24.0, 7.8:23.0, 4.7:17.5, 1.9:11.2, respectively.

Male: Not known.

Remarks. Variability was observed between the specimens of P. prater collected from Great Nicobar island ( Figs 8–15 ) and from Arunachal Pradesh ( Figs 16–23 ). P. prater from Great Nicobar has proximal narrow and distal broad dark bands on the fore wing ( Fig. 14 ); fore wing 2.3× as long as wide; submarginalis almost straight without a dip before marginalis; in addition to lateral black patches on T2 and T3 posterior tergites are also darker; T4–T5 with a single row of long transverse setae ( Fig. 10 ); whereas P. prater of Arunachal Pradesh has a faint black band proximally ( Fig. 22 ); fore wing 2.72× as long as wide; there is distinct dip of submarginalis before marginalis; black patches present laterally only on T2 and T3 remainder yellow; posterior tergites densely setose ( Fig. 23 ).

Link to distribution map. [http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=5061]

Material examined. Holotype, female: VIETNAM: Hoa Binh Prov., Van Mai, 6.VI.1982, IEBR 0 137 (deposited in IEBR) . Other material: INDIA: 9 females, ICAR / NBAIR /P334, ICAR / NBAIR /P336T, ICAR / NBAIR /P880, ICAR / NBAIR /P881, ICAR / NBAIR /P882, ICAR / NBAIR /P883, ICAR / NBAIR /P884, ICAR / NBAIR /P885 ( NBAIR) ; ZSI/WGRS/IR/INV4094 (WGRS).

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Brightfield images of Pardoteleia prater (Great Nicobar) 8. Habitus, dorsal view 9. Frons showing central keel 10. Metasoma, dorsal view 11. Head and antennae 12. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 13. Antenna 14. Wings showing dark bands 15. Pleuron.

FIGURES 16 – 23. Brightfield images of Pardoteleia prater (Arunachal Pradesh) 16. Habitus, dorsal view 17. Head and base of antenna, ventral view 18. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view 19. Head, anterior view 20. Head, antennae and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view 21. Head and mesosoma, lateral view 22. Wings 23. Posterior mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view.