Haltichella clavicornis (Ashmead, 1904)

Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 342-381 : 366-368

Haltichella clavicornis (Ashmead, 1904)

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Haltichella clavicornis (Ashmead, 1904)

Haltichella macroclava Roy and Farooqi, 1984

Stomatoceras clavicornis Ashmead, 1904

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Sattari, Ambedem , 16 April 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas ; 7 January 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas .

Description

Female, length of the body 3–3.2 mm.

Colour. Body black with following rufous: scape, pedicel, F1–F4, tegulae, fore and mid-leg except for coxae, hind femur and tarsi, hind tibia except for interior carinae.

Head. Triangular, wider than high in frontal view. Scrobe deep with striae. Antennae strongly clavate. POL 5× OOL.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices carinate. Scutellum bidentate and with median longitudinal fovea.

Metasoma. T1 large occupying four-fifths length of metasoma in dorsal view, T1 with 3 or more basal carinae.

Distribution

INDIA. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Goa (new record), Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal ( Gowriprakash et al. 2018) .

Figures

Figure 37–42. Habitus: 37–38, Hockeria argentigera; 39–40, Hockeria manii; 41–42, Haltichella clavicornis.