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03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.text	03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanogmus cecidovorus Ranjith & Ayiswarya & Niveditha & Priyadarsanan 2023	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Aphanogmus cecidovorus Ranjith sp. n.</p>
            <p>(Figures 2–3)</p>
            <p>Type material</p>
            <p>  Holotype, female, INDIA: Kerala, Malappuram,  Calicut University Campus , collected 5 March 2023, emerged 15 March 2023, from leaf galls of  Pongamia pinnata induced by  Aceria pongamiae , coll. B. Niveditha and S.V. Ayiswarya.  Paratypes, 3 females with same data as holotype (AIMB).</p>
            <p>Description</p>
            <p>FEMALE. Body length 0.8 mm, forewing 0.4 mm.</p>
            <p>Head</p>
            <p>Head 1.6 × as wide as long in dorsal view (Figure 2D), 1.2 × as wide as mesosoma (Figure 2B); POL: OOL: LOL = 3.5: 1.0: 2.0. Head 1.1 × as wide as high in frontal view (Figure 2C); malar space 0.6 × as long as eye height; lateral margin of torulus distinctly raised (Figure 2C); intertorular carina indistinct (Figure 2C); frontal depression granulate (Figure 2D); ocellar foveae present (Figure 2D); preocellar pit present (Figure 2D); facial pit absent (Figure 2D); preoccipital furrow present and extending from anterior ocellus to occipital foramen (Figure 2B); preoccipital carina present (Figure 2B,F); preoccipital lunula present (Figure 2B,F); occipital carina present (Figure 2B,F); occipital depression absent (Figure 2B,F); occiput faintly sculptured (Figure 2B,F). Antenna 10-merous (Figure 2E); scape about 0.7 × as long as height of head, as long as distance between inner orbits; pedicel 2.5 × as long as flagellomere 1; the following flagellomeres gradually widened (Figure 2E); flagellomere 7 about 4.0 × as wide as flagellomere 1; club 1 merous (Figure 2E). Mesosoma</p>
            <p>Mesosoma 1.1 × as long as wide (Figure 2A); 1.3 × as high as wide; ventral pronotal pit indistinct (Figures 2A and 3A); mesoscutum granulate, sparsely setose (Figure 2B,F); setal base slightly pustulate (Figure 2B,F); median mesoscutal sulcus indistinct to absent (Figure 2B,F); notaulus absent (Figure 2B,F); parapsidal line absent (Figure 2B,F); interaxillar sulcus indistinct (Figure 2B,F); mesoscutal humeral sulcus distinct. Scutoscutellar sulcus straight, shallow, continuous with interaxillar sulcus (Figure 2B,F); dorsal axillar area and mesoscutellum sculptured as mesoscutum, with distinct lateral carina that connects posterior mesoscutellar sulcus (Figures 2B,F and 3C); mesoscutellum 1.3 × as long as wide (Figure 2B,F); anterior mesopleural sulcus distinct (Figures 2A and 3A); mesopleural area finely reticulate anteriorly with several setae (Figures 2A and 3A); dorsal mesometapleural carina slightly curved (Figures 2A and 3A); intersection of anterior mesopleural sulcus and dorsal mesometapleural carina forms obtuse angle (Figures 2A and 3A); metapleural carina distinct, extends near dorsal mesometapleural carina (Figures 2A and 3A).</p>
            <p>Wings</p>
            <p>Forewing about 2.7 × as long as wide, with a darkly pigmented band central two-third (Figure 3D); radial vein 1.8 × as long as marginal vein (Figure 3D).</p>
            <p>Legs</p>
            <p>Metacoxa bare dorsally (Figure 3A); longitudinal metacoxal carina present at base (Figure 3A); meta femur 2.5 × as long as wide.</p>
            <p>Metasoma</p>
            <p>Syntergum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly, as long as wide, smooth, occupying 0.6 × total length of metasoma (Figures 2B,F and 3C); syntergum with short longitudinal striae (Figures 2B,F and 3C).</p>
            <p>Colour</p>
            <p>Body yellow except scape, basal flagellomeres, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, forewing medially, syntergum subposteriorly brown.</p>
            <p>Male</p>
            <p>Unknown.</p>
            <p>Distribution</p>
            <p>India (Kerala).</p>
            <p>Biology</p>
            <p> Reared from  Microdiplosis pongamiae Mani , which feeds on the gall mite  Aceria pongamiae Kieffer.</p>
            <p>Etymology</p>
            <p>The species is named after the peculiar host association as it parasitises the cecidomyiid which feeds on the gall-inducing mites.</p>
            <p>Comparative diagnosis</p>
            <p> This new species belongs to the  tenuicornis (sensu Evans et al. 2005) species group in having the mesoscutum without a median sulcus, and the metasoma with a basal transverse carina. Currently, there are only three species known to be associated with acariphagous cecidomyiids (  A. floridanus ,  A. fulmeki and  A. flavigastris ). Among these, only  A. floridanus , which also belongs to the  tenuicornis species group, shows some resemblance to  A. cecidovorus sp. n. Based on the character combination of the  tenuicornis species group, we can exclude the other two species. Furthermore, the new species can be distinguished from  A. fulmeki and  A. flavigastris , by its distinct body colour pattern. In addition to the differences in general body colour, and colour of antennae and legs, the new species can be distinguished from  A. floridanus from the positioning of the transverse band on the forewing, which extends from subbasally to the basal half of the radial vein (transverse band present before marginal vein in  A. floridanus ); the distinctly curved radial vein (straight in  A. floridanus ), which is 1.8 × as long as the marginal vein (1.5 × in  A. floridanus ); and metasoma 1.4 × as long as mesosoma (metasoma not longer than mesosoma in  A. floridanus ). </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Ranjith, A. P.;Ayiswarya, S. V.;Niveditha, B.;Priyadarsanan, D. R.	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
