Oodera ahoma (Mani & Kaul, 1973) Figs 2a, 5a, 8a, 11a, 14a

Lycisca ahoma Mani & Kaul, 1973: 53-55.

Oodera ahoma; Bouček et al. 1978: 448.

Diagnosis.

FEMALE (N = 1). Medium-sized (8.40 mm). Head and mesosoma dark blue to green-blue. Fore wing hyaline. Body slender (mesonotum 1.51 × as long as wide). Head round (1.41 × as high as long). Eyes small (0.57 × as high as head) (Fig. 8a). Corona medium (5.20 × as long as wide), structure continuous (Fig. 5a). Pronotum pentagonal with posterior part distinctly narrowing towards mesoscutum, with broadest part before midlength (Fig. 11a). Mesoscutellum normal (0.70 × as long as wide), anterior margin convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae more than 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.42), mesoscutellum lineate in anterior third to half, rugulose in posterior half or two thirds (Fig. 14a). Propodeum medium (0.13 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 14a). Profemur medium (2.04 × as long as wide). Marginal vein long (1.13 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma medium (0.47 × as long as body). Ovipositor short (0.11 × as long as metasoma) (Fig. 2a).

Redescription.

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 2a, 5a, 8a, 11a, 14a). Scape brown, darkening apically, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa dark brown, profemur dark green and blue, meso- and metafemur dark brown, tibiae light brown, tarsi yellow, except for brown last tarsal segments. Metasoma dark brown.

Head (Figs 5a, 8a). Face completely reticulate. Head 1.39 × as wide as long. Head width 3.57 × eye distance. Malar space 0.43 × head height. Corona 0.71 × as long as eye height. POL 0.75 × OOL. Scape 2.31 × as long as pedicel. Clava length to funicule length not available. Flagellum length to head width not available.

Mesosoma (Figs 11a, 14a). Pronotum 1.03 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.51 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.35 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 1.12 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.35 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.34 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 2a). Fore wing 3.00 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.38 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.20 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 3.10 × as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 2.76 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

Asia. India: female holotype, Lumding, Assam, leg. R.O., 25.05.1942, det. Mani and Kaul as Lycisca ahoma (USNM) (OAh01) .

Biology.

Hosts may be Agrilus sp. ( Buprestidae) (Noyes 2017) (unverified host record).

Distribution.

India.