Klabonosa indica Gupta & Yeshwanth & Sureshan 2018
Creators: name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Yeshwanth, H. M.
name: Sureshan, P. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Klabonosa
Klabonosa indica

description: Klabonosa indica Gupta, SureshaN & YeshwaNth sp. N.   
(Figs 1−5)  
 Description. FEMALE (Fig. 1). [Measurements based on the holotype and paratypes.] Body length 1.58 mm (holotype) with average body length 1.6 mm (1.54−1.68) (see Table 1 for measurements).   
 Colour. Head and mesosoma (Figs 2A‒C, F) mostly with bluish metallic sheen except greenish on frons. Antenna with scape light yellow, pedicel and anelli yellowish-brown; flagellum and clava brown. Gaster (Fig. 2E) black with metallic green shine on T1; yellowish-brown coloration at base and on the lateral sides of entire gaster.   
Legs with basal half of coxa concolourous with mesosoma, apical half yellow testaceous (Fig. 2E), remainder of legs yellowish with tips of tarsi brown. Tegula yellowish. Wings hyaline with veins and pilosity brown (Fig. 2D).  
 Head. Head distinctly reticulate (Figs 2A, B); ocellar triangle coarsely reticulate (Fig. 2B). Antenna inserted above middle of face (Fig. 2A); flagellum (Fig. 2C) with linear sensilla arranged in four irregular rows on F1, three irregular rows on remaining funicular segments; first anellus wider than second. Scrobal area reticulate. Clypeal area (Fig. 2A) finely reticulate, lower margin bilobed with a deep median incision. Left and right mandible similar with lower tooth long, second tooth short and truncate upper tooth (Fig. 3). Head in frontal view 1.07 (1.03−1.15)× wider than high, in dorsal view 1.51 (1.47−1.53)× wider than long; eye height 2.74× malar space; in lateral view malar space 0.36 (0.4−0.33)× eye height. Antenna with length of pedicel flagellum 1.92× head width in frontal view; scape reaching anterior ocellus, 0.65× eye height; pedicel 0.58 as long as F1; F1‒F6 longer than wide (ratio of length: width of each segment = 13.7: 10.9: 10.6: 11.3: 10.0: 9.8); clava length: width = 18: 3, 1.01× as long as two preceding segments combined. POL: OOL: OD (11.95: 5.70: 4.95); POL 2.12´OOL.   
 Mesosoma. Mesosoma (Fig. 2F) 1.34−1.54× as long as wide and 0.99−1.15× as long as metasoma; slightly convex and reticulate except propodeum finely reticulate (Fig. 2F). Pronotal collar carinate anteriorly (Fig. 2B). Axilla reticulate; frenum faintly indicated by fine reticulation (Fig. 2F). Propodeum (Fig. 2F) width 3.31−3.65× length; without median carina and with fine plicae, median area raised; spiracles oval with irregular margins, near the hind margin of metanotum. Mesoscutum width 2.04× length; scutellum length subequal to width. Fore wing (Fig. 2D) length 2.25× width, subhyaline; MV 0.85× PMV, PMV 1.96× STV, CC 1.52´MV; costal cell dorsally and ventrally with setae; basal fold with line of 7‒9 setae; speculum almost absent, narrow, closed below.   
 Metasoma (Fig. 2E). Gaster smooth and shiny, collapsing dorsally, 0.69−0.73× as long as head and mesosoma combined, acute apically; petiole smooth, twice as wide as long; T1 largest, less than half length of gaster, hind margin slightly incised medially; hypopygium reaching 0.84× length of gaster (without petiole). Ovipositor protruding slightly.   
MALE. Body length 1.68 mm (Figs 4, 5A −D). Similar to female except for metasoma. Antenna (Figs 5B, D), densely hairy with linear sensilla arranged in multiple rows, and with globose pedicel. POL: OOL: OD = 13.2: 5.0: 5.0; POL 2.64× OOL. Fore wing 2.21× as long as wide; basal cell closed below and with 8 setae on basal fold (Fig. 5C); MV 0.89 PMV, PMV 1.88× STV, CC 1.48× MV. Gaster more slender and compressed than for female; with side of first tergite and anterior part of second tergite yellowish-brown.  
 Type material. Holotype f# (UAS-B), INDIA, Karnataka, Bengaluru, UAS-B (GKVK campus), 12°58’N, 77°35’E, 937 m altitude, 08.x.2017, ex Endochus sp. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on the host plant Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. (Moraceae), coll. H. M. Yeshwanth, registration number - UASB01827065. Paratypes: 3f#, 1m # (NBAIR) [same data as holotype], registration number - NBAIR/Ptero/Klab/81017B −E; 2f#, (UAS-B (GKVK campus)) [same data as holotype], codes- UASB01827066, UASB01827067; 2f#, (ZSI (Kozhikode)) [same data as holotype], registration number ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV/10346).   
 Etymology. The species name is derived from the country name from where it was collected.   
 Biology. Reared from eggs of an assassin bug Endochus sp. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) (Fig. 6) on the host plant Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. (Moraceae). The unparasitized eggs are also shown (Fig. 7). The host egg mass contained 30 eggs, from which 29 females and 1 male of K. indica emerged.   
 Remarks. The new species is most similar to K. ferox in general morphology especially in the shape of head with tentorial pits less distinct in the form of smaller pits (cf. Fig. 2A and Bouček 1976, fig. 28). They are also similar in having large ocelli, similar antennae which are situated high on the face, fore wing with basal cell closed below by cubital hairline, and similar body sculpture. However, K. indica differs from K. ferox in general colour of body which is more metallic blue rather dark green, POL 2.1× diameter of lateral ocellus, which is little more than its own diameter from the eye margin, mesosoma 1.34−1.54× as long as broad, fore wing with a very slender speculum (Fig. 2D), MV 0.85× PMV, PMV 1.96× STV and body length 1.6 mm (in K. ferox body dark green, POL nearly twice diameter of lateral ocellus, which is less than half its diameter from eye margin, mesosoma about twice as long broad, fore wing with speculum broad and MV longer than PMV (Bouček 1976, cf. fig. 31), STV 0.42× MV, and body length 2 mm).   
 Females of K. austini, K. cabra and K. watshami not only differ somewhat in head shape but also in having deep and distinct tentorial pits. In K. cabra these are united in a continuous groove quite close to the oral margin (Bouček 1988, fig. 755), whereas in K. austini (Bouček 1988, fig. 754) and in K. watshami (Bouček 1976, fig. 30) they are in the form of short, divergent grooves. The antennae are also inserted much closer to the middle of the head in these last two species than for K. indica.   
 Similarity in head shape between females (Fig. 2A) and males (Fig. 5A) of K. indica suggest that males of the other three species will be similar to conspecific females and thus also readily differentiated from K. indica males.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Ankita, Yeshwanth, H. M. & Sureshan, P. M., 2018, A new species of Klabonosa Bouček (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) reared from eggs of Endochus sp. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from India, pp. 593-600 in Zootaxa 4413 (3) on pages 594-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.3.13, http://zenodo.org/record/1227875