Orionis Shaw 1987
Creators: name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Pattar, Rohit
name: Kumar, H. M. Hemanth
name: Sushil, S. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Orionis

description: Key to Old World species of the genus Orionis Shaw, 1987
1. Pronotum and propleuron yellow; first metasomal tergite dorsally weakly rugose or finely reticulate; m-cu of fore wing distad to 2-RS; [Oriental: Thailand] ......... O. orientalis Shaw & Shimbori, 2016
– Pronotum and propleuron black; other characters variable .............................................................. 2
2. First metasomal tergite dorsally entirely striate; POL 1.7−2 × Od, 0.8−0.9 ×OOL; m-cu of fore wing antefurcal of subinterstitial to 2-RS; ovipositor sheath narrow, 1.4−1.5 times as long as first tergite; [Eastern Palaearctic] .................................................................. O. flavifacies (Belokobylskij, 2000)
– First metasomal tergite not always entirely striate; other characters variable .................................. 3
3. Second flagellar segment of ♀ much shorter than first segment and about twice as long as wide; ovipositor sheath about 2.0 × length of first tergite; hind coxa dorso-apically rugose-punctate; [China and Korea] ...................................................................... O. erratus (Chen & van Achterberg, 1997)
– Second flagellar segment of ♀ nearly as long as first segment and more than 2.5× as long as wide or 2.5–4.2 × as long as wide (Figs 4B, 9G); ovipositor sheath 0.9–1.6 × length of first tergite; sculpture of hind coxa variable ........................................................................................................................ 4
4. Apical third of antenna yellowish (Figs 7–8); hind femur 6.6× as long as wide (Figs 7–8); ovipositor sheath 0.9–1.5 × as long as first tergite; [POL slightly shorter than OOL (Fig. 9B); length of eye in dorsal view 1.9× temple]; [Oriental: South India] ............................................................................. ....................................................................... O. femorator Gupta, van Achterberg & Pattar sp. nov.
– Apical third of antenna dark brown; hind femur 4.3–5.8 × as long as wide (Fig. 4B); ovipositor sheath 1.3–1.6 × as long as first tergite; [Palaearctic] ....................................................................... 5
5. Hind coxa dorso-apically with curved striae; in dorsal view posterior part (= behind spiracles) of first tergite widened; hind femur 4.3–4.8× as long as wide; POL 0.7–0.9 × OOL; eye in dorsal view 1.3–1.6 × as long as temple; ovipositor sheath 1.4–1.6 × as long as first tergite; [West and East Palaearctic] ................................................................................... O. coxator (Belokobylskij, 1995)
– Hind coxa dorso-apically rugose-punctate; in dorsal view posterior part of first tergite parallel-sided (Fig. 4C); hind femur 5.8 × as long as wide; POL 1.1× OOL (Fig. 3B); eye in dorsal view 3.1× as long as temple (Fig. 3B); ovipositor sheath about 1.3× length of first tergite; [South Palaearctic] ... .................................................................. O. shillongensis Gupta, van Achterberg & Pattar sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Ankita, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Pattar, Rohit, Kumar, H. M. Hemanth & Sushil, S. N., 2024, Review of the genera Orionis Shaw and Stenothremma Shaw (Braconidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 218-238 in European Journal of Taxonomy 943 (1) on page 236, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2597, http://zenodo.org/record/12723166