Erectovena desperata (Hering)

Erectovena desperata (Hering) View in CoL

( Figures 39–45 View FIGURE 39 View FIGURES 40−45 )

Rioxoptilona desperata Hering, 1939: 176 View in CoL .

Erectovena desperata (Hering) View in CoL : Hancock 2011: 119.

Material examined: 1 ♀, INDIA: Meghalaya, Umiam, College of P.G. Studies, 07.ii.2023, Kennedy Ningthoujam ( NIM) .

Diagnosis: Frons fulvous with 2 pairs of frontal and orbital setae, ocellar seta vestigial, medial and lateral vertical setae and postocellar setae well developed; scape, pedicel and flagellomere slightly fuscous, arista plumose, combined length of pedicel plus flagellomere as long as the face; face fulvous without any markings, genal seta present, postocular setae black and prominent. Scutum with well developed chaetotaxy, fulvous with two pairs of short, brown vittae and prescutellar, conical patch; anepisternum with two lateral brown vittae extending from postpronotal lobe to base of the wing; scutellum yellow with six scutellar setae. Wing dark brown with base of pterostigma fulvous, conical hyaline indentation in cell r 1 and cell m, hyaline spots in cell r 4+5 and dm. Abdomen fulvous with lateral black/brown patches on tergites 1–6 with a pair of submedian spots on tergites 2–5, tergite 6 with a median brown patch. Oviscape dark brown ( 1.56 mm), eversible membrane slightly shorter than oviscape ( 1.41 mm) with spicules on distal end of eversible membrane dome shaped with 7–8 conical projections, aculeus ( 0.98 mm) shorter than eversible membrane, with a blunt apex and well developed preapical setae (2 elongate pairs and two short pairs); spermathecae brown, spherical with an apical projection.