Conura xanthostigma ( Dalman, 1820 )

Conura xanthostigma ( Dalman, 1820) View in CoL

Chalcis xanthostigma Dalman, 1820:141 View in CoL , Sweden.

Smiera xanthostigma (Dalman) View in CoL [combination by Walker (1834):25].

Spilochalcis xanthostigma (Dalman) View in CoL [combination by Thomson (1876):16].

Spilochalcis simlaensis Cameron, 1902:438 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀, NHMUK, India: Uttar Pradesh.

Spilochalcis indica Mani, 1935:252 View in CoL . Holotype ♀, ZSIC, [synonymy by Narendran (1989):204].

Spilochalcis fletcheri Mani, 1936:340 View in CoL . [synonymy by Narendran (1989): 204].

Conura ( Spilochalcis) xanthostigma (Dalman) View in CoL [combination by Delvare (1992):296].

Conura xanthostigma (Dalman) View in CoL [earliest use of name by Vidal (2001):53].

Type material. Lectotype ♀ —“ India: Uttarakhand, Date?, Coll. C.S. Nurse ” [ BMNH]. (not examined)

Diagnosis. Female. Black specimen with lemon yellow marking along inner eye margin, a band on frons, on interantennal projection and clypeus, anterior margins of pronotal collar, mesoscutum with parapsidal furrow and sides of parapsides, mesoscutellum with two lateral no-confluent patches, hind femur with variable yellow and black markings; head as wide as mesosoma, indistinctly pitted; scrobe microsculptured; POL 0.6× OOL; stout interantennal projection; antennae thick, scape not reaching anterior ocellus, shorter than lengths of fu 4 –fu 6 combined; mesosoma (except propodeum) dorsally densely pitted, interstices carinate, no microsculpture; pronotal collar without anterior carina, laterally formed teeth present; mesoscutellum with median longitudinal depression; MV 0.3–0.4× SMV, PMV little longer than MV, STV 0.3× MV; hind coxa with dense setigerous punctures dorsally; hind femur with dense minute setigerous punctures, inner basal tooth present, ventrally with 24–28 minute teeth; metasoma as long as or little shorter than mesosoma, strongly convex; Gt 1 more than 0.5× length of gaster; epipygium not carinate at middle; ovipositor sheath slightly projecting beyond epipygium.

Male. Similar to female, hind coxa wholly black; hind femur with shorter yellow patch near apex on ventral side; antennae with fairly wider scape.

Note. No specimens of both sexes were obtained during the present study. So above mentioned diagnosis is based on the description of species ( Burks, 1940; Habu, 1960; Delvare, 1992).

Distribution. India: Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Canada; China; Czech Republic; England, Finland; France; Germany; Italy; Netherlands; Russia; Slovakia; Sweden ( Noyes, 2019).

Host. Hymenoptera ; Lepidoptera ( Noyes, 2019) .