Published June 22, 2022 | Version v1
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Gnathochorisis Forster 1869

  • 1. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India.
  • 2. Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, 185910, Pushkinskaya St. 11, Petrozavodsk, Russia.

Description

Key to the Indomalayan species of Gnathochorisis Förster, 1869

1. Second metasomal tergite as long as wide posteriorly; fore wing with closed areolet; area superomedia longer than wide; propodeum without anterior section of lateromedian longitudinal carinae; first flagellomere 5.3 × as long as wide; face, frontal orbits and pronotum yellow; body slender........................................................ G. malaisei Humala

– Second metasomal tergite clearly transverse (Fig. 2B); fore wing without areolet (Fig. 2C); area superomedia distinctly wider than long (Fig. 1F); propodeum with anterior section of lateromedian longitudinal carinae (Fig. 1F); first flagellomere 4.3–4.7 × as long as wide; face, frontal orbits and pronotum fuscous (Figs 1A, B, D); body more robust....................... 2

2. Area superomedia 1.25 × as wide as long; lower face smooth medially; clypeus 1.6 × as wide as high; hind femur 3.0 × as long as wide................................................................................. G. leleji Humala

– Area superomedia 1.8 × as wide as long (Fig. 1F); lower face transversely striate medially (Fig. 1B); clypeus 2.0 × as wide as high (Fig. 1B); hind femur 3.6 × as long as wide................................................ G. jasoni sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Ranjith, A. P., Humala, Andrei E. & Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan, 2022, First records of two orthocentrine genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from India with description of two new species, pp. 414-422 in Zootaxa 5155 (3) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5155.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6683439

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References

  • Forster, A. (1869) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 25, 135 - 221.