Chakra gotamiae Veenakumari & Sreedevi & Mohanraj 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Veenakumari, Kamalanathan
name: Sreedevi, Kolla
name: Mohanraj, Prashanth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scelionidae
Chakra
Chakra gotamiae

description: Chakra gotamiae Veenakumari sp. nov.
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(Figures 8 (a–f), 9(a–b), 23(e))
Female body length = 1.70–1.86 mm (n = 8); male body length = 1.59–1.65 (n = 2).
Colour
Head yellow-brown; mesosoma orange-brown; metasoma yellow except brown T4, brown-black T5–T6; inner margins of ocelli with black markings; radicle and A1 yellow, A2 and A4 brown, A3 dark brown and remaining antennomeres brown-black; all legs yellow with black apical tarsomeres.
Head
1.1× as wide as high, 1.3× as high as long. Setation on head: sparse. IOS: 0.6× head width, 1.3× eye length. POL> LOL = OOL: 6.7:4.3:4.3. OOL: 1.8× MOD. Compound eye: large (L:W = 16.6:14.9). Sculpture on vertex: with sparse setose protuberances, furrows between protuberances with weak reticulations. Sculpture of frons: with sparse setose protuberances, furrows between protuberances with weak reticulations, except for weak transverse striae medially and oblique reticulations ventrally. Central keel: absent. Sculpture of gena: sparse setose protuberances with weak striae in between. Facial and malar striae: weak. Interantennal process: smooth, gradually narrowing apically, beak-like.
Mesosoma
L:W of mesoscutum: 25.2:30.3. Setation of mesoscutum: sparse. Sculpture of mesoscutum: with sparse setose protuberances, furrows between protuberances with weak reticulations. Mesoscutal humeral sulcus: not foveate. Mesoscutal suprahumeral sulcus: not foveate. Scutoscutellar sulcus: entirely foveate. L:W of mesoscutellum: 11.2:20.4. Sculpture of mesoscutellum: weakly reticulate interspersed with sparse setose protuberances. Setation of mesoscutellum: sparse. Sculpture of metascutellum: anteriorly foveate, remainder longitudinal carinate with weak foveae between carinae. Armature of metascutellum: triangular spine extending over horn on T1. Sculpture of metanotal trough: foveate. Sculpture of lateral propodeal area: with sparse depressions. Posterior propodeal projection: pointed, directed posteriorly. Sculpture of lateral pronotal area: dorsally with setose protuberances followed by weak transverse striations, posteriorly with weak transverse carinae, remainder smooth. Pronotal cervical sulcus: not foveate. Netrion sulcus: foveate. Speculum of mesopleuron: transversely carinate. Episternal sulcus: foveate. Postacetabular sulcus: not foveate. Prespecular sulcus: not foveate. Mesepimeral sulcus: indicated by weak wide foveae. Mesepimeral area: smooth, narrower than mesepimeral sulcus. Mesopleural carina: present. Sculpture of femoral depression: dorsally smooth, ventrally obliquely carinate. Mesopleural pit: present. Sculpture of ventral mesopleuron: with setose protuberances. Sculpture of metapleuron: dorsally and ventrally with shallow depressions. Metapleural sulcus: foveate. Paracoxal sulcus: foveate. Metapleural epicoxal sulcus: not foveate. L:W of fore wing: 98.2:27.7. L:W of hind wing: 88.9:14.2. Marginal cilia on posterior margin of proximal fore wing: absent.
Metasoma
L:W of metasoma: 84.5:32.6. Sculpture of T1: longitudinally costate. Length of T1: 0.7× the length of T2. Horn on T1: indicated as a short protuberance. Length of T2: 0.7× the length of T3. Sculpture of T2: basal foveae present followed by longitudinal costae, with foveae between costae. Sculpture of T3: longitudinally striate, with punctae between striae. Sculpture of T4: reticulate. Sculpture of T5–T6: predominantly smooth.
Male
Similar to female. Shape of antennomeres: elongate.
Material examined
Holotype. Female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4436), INDIA: Karnataka: Tumkur, Huliyur Durga, 12.825° N 77.034°E, 719 m, SN, 19 August 2011.
Paratypes. 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4437), Karnataka: Chikkaballapur, Nandi Hills, 13.617° N 77.692°E, 1448 m, SN, 08 September 2010; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4438), Karnataka: Tumkur, Ranganathaswamy Betta, 13.033°N 76.971°E, 901 m, YPT, 20 September 2011; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4439), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval, 13.094°N 77.543°E, 921 m, MT, 14 November 2014; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4440), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval, 13.094°N 77.543°E, 921 m, MT, 24 August 2016; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4441), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Attur, 13.096°N 77.566°E, 936 m, PFT, 07 October 2011; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4442), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Bannerghatta National Park, 12.800°N 77.576°E, 931 m, YPT, 13 August 2015; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4443), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Hebbal, NBAIR, 13.027°N 77.584°E, 927 m, YPT, 25 June 2016; 1 male (ICAR / NBAIR / P4446), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval, 13.094°N 77.543°E, 921 m, MT, 09 September 2014; 1 female (ICAR / NBAIR / P4447), Karnataka: Bengaluru, Jarakabande Kaval, 13.094°N 77.543°E, 921 m, MT, 1 August 2015.
Etymology
The specific epithet ‘gotamiae’ is in honour of Gotami, Gautama Buddha’s foster mother and the first woman to be ordained a nun or bhikkhuni in the Buddhist monastic order. The name is treated as a noun in the genitive case.
Diagnosis
This species is diagnosed by the presence of a triangular metascutellum which extends over the horn on T1.
description: Published as part of Veenakumari, Kamalanathan, Sreedevi, Kolla & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2022, Additions to the genus Chakra Rajmohana and Veenakumari, 2014 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) from India, pp. 1657-1707 in Journal of Natural History 56 (41 - 44) on pages 1674-1677, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2123286, http://zenodo.org/record/7380608