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Brachymeria carbonaria

Creators

  • 1. School of Sciences (SoS), Jain University, Bangalore, India;
  • 2. Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, ICAR - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India

Description

Brachymeria carbonaria (Zehntner, 1906)

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Chalcis carbonaria Zehntner, 1906

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Tiswadi, Old Goa, 17 July 2015, 1 male, yellow pan trap, coll. Ankita Gupta.

Description

Male, length of the body 2.5 mm.

Colour. Body black with following yellow: base and apex of fore and mid tibia, the apex of fore and mid femur, all tarsi, hind femur at the apex, hind tibia at base and apex.

Head. Head in frontal view wider than high. Antennae stout and short. Scrobe deep and smooth reaching anterior ocellus. Post-orbital carina indistinct. POL 3× OOL.

Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices carinate. Scutellum rounded at apex. Post-marginal vein shorter than marginal vein and longer than stigmal vein.

Metasoma. Metasoma shorter than mesosoma. T1 smooth and shiny with pair of basal carinae.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (Sheela et al. 2015; Gowriprakash et al. 2018).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 357-358, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687FB8B03FFCAFE1F67509D9DFED9

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11143542 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/11059701 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEFFF838B0CFFDAFF8863539D79FF80 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03D687FB8B03FFCAFE1F67509D9DFED9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/229726584 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/295778/taxon/03D687FB8B03FFCAFE1F67509D9DFED9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Chalcididae
Genus
Brachymeria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zehntner
Species
carbonaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachymeria carbonaria (Zehntner, 1906) sec. Gawas & Gupta, 2024

References

  • Sheela S, Kazmi SI, Girish Kumar P. 2015. Insecta: chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Fauna Uttar Pradesh, State Fauna Series. 22 (2): 597 - 617.
  • Gowriprakash J, Manickavasagam S, Gupta A. 2018. First report of Antrocephalus neogalleriae (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) from India and other Chalcididae distributional records. J Entomol Zool Stud. 6 (6): 924 - 926.