Batotheca nigriceps ( Cameron, 1897 )

Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Reddy, P. Maheshwara & Sushil, S. N., 2024, Review of the subtribe Spinariina van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) from India with description of one new species, Zootaxa 5399 (4), pp. 347-364 : 357

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scientific name	Batotheca nigriceps ( Cameron, 1897 )
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Batotheca nigriceps ( Cameron, 1897) View in CoL

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Spinaria nigriceps Cameron, 1897: 37 .

Batotheca nigriceps View in CoL ; Shenefelt, 1978: 1459; van Achterberg, 2005: 68-69.

Material examined.— One female and one male on card; India: Karnataka: Rajankunte ; ex caterpillar feeding on Psidium guajava L.; 30.x.2008; coll. NBAIR; code—NIM/ NBAIR /Hym/Brac/Bato/301008 (NIM) .

Brief diagnosis.—Head and propodeum blackish; mesoscutum and scutellum yellowish-brown; fore and middle femora brownish-yellow; hind femur and tibia dark brown or blackish; propodeum with large punctures with some reticulate sculpture; metasoma with a blackish pattern.

Distribution.— China, India ( Bihar, Karnataka, Kolkata, Sikkim), Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.

Biology. Both B. nigriceps specimens were reared from two separate caterpillars feeding on guava leaves which later turned into two solitary brown mummified caterpillars ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 ).