Smicromorpha keralensis Narendran 1979
Creators: name: Binoy, C.
name: Santhosh, S.
name: Nasser, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae
Smicromorpha
Smicromorpha keralensis

description: Smicromorpha keralensis Narendran, 1979
(Figs 39–45)
Smicromorpha keralensis Narendran 1979: 908.
Material examined (images). India: Kerala, Malappuram district, Thenhipalam (11.13ºN & 75.89ºE) 25.vii.1977, Coll. T. C. Narendran (NHMUK, holotype ♂, BMNH (E) #1414901). India: Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore (10.98ºN & 76.96ºE), 25.ix–1.x.1979, Coll. J. S. Noyes (♀ NHMUK, NHMUK 010748969).
Diagnosis. Female. Body length 4.59 mm, length of fore wing 3.42 mm; colour pale yellowish and brownish orange except for following: U-shaped macula on mid lobe of mesoscutum, large spot on scapula, entire axilla (Fig. 42), outer dorsal side of hind coxa brown, hind femur with two brown dorsal spots joining each other dorsomedially, serrulation black, tarsi ivory-coloured, petiole medially and rest of metasomal tergites apically reddish-brownish; pubescence short, with scattered adpressed setae on mesosoma and hind femur. Head with eyes and malar space moderately large, latter with distinct malar carina; antennal scrobe deep, carinately margined, widely separated from inner edge of eye (Fig. 43); frons with median longitudinal groove between median ocellus and antennal scrobe; POL as long as OOL; LOD shorter (0.8×) than OOL (Fig. 42); maximum interocular distance (on vertex) strongly convex at lower eye margin, at least 3.0× as great as minimum distance (at mid-length of face); upper frons reticu- late-punctate, lower part striate; flagellomeres short, subquadrate; pronotal collar angulate, laterally weakly emar- ginate; mesoscutum and scutellum rugose-punctate; mesopleuron finely rugose punctate with distinct sternaulus (Fig. 43); propodeum concave posteriorly with weak median groove, spiracular sulci indistinct; fore wing hyaline with dense brown setae, STV shorter than and at right angle with MV, stump of basalis present (Fig. 41); hind coxa 3.3× as long as wide; hind femur 2.4× as long as wide with blunt basal tooth followed by slightly sinuate serrulation delimiting two, hardly defined lobes; petiole 4.3× as long as wide and high, somewhat swollen before mid-length, dorsally irregularly areolate-rugulose, with oblique carinulae laterally (Fig. 42); transverse lamina distinct, continu- ous to mid-length.
Male. Body length 4.31 mm, length of fore wing 2.4 mm; colour pale yellow with lower face, clypeus, man- dible, antenna, mesosoma, and anterior third of petiole black; U-shaped macula on anterior part of mid lobe of me- soscutum (Fig. 39). Head, mesosoma and hind femur with short adpressed setae; flagellar setae long, curved; hind femur twice as long as wide with weak ventral process followed by serrulation; petiole dorsally minutely reticulate, transverse lamina distinct, continuous and not extending posteromedially to mid-length (Fig. 40).
Distribution. Oriental (India).
Host. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Binoy, C., Santhosh, S. & Nasser, M., 2021, Review of Smicromorpha Girault (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) with description of a new species from India, pp. 131-149 in Zootaxa 4991 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5027662