Antrocephalus Kirby 1883
Creators: name: Gawas, Sandesh M.
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae
Antrocephalus

description: Key to species of Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883
1. T 1 without longitudinal carinae (Figure 66); scutellum with median fovea...................... .................................................................................... A. neogalleriae Narendran and Achterberg
– T 1 with a pair of longitudinal carinae (Figure 67); scutellum without fovea ............... 2
2. Genotemporal furrow absent (Figure 71).................................................. A. decipiens (Masi)
– Genotemporal furrow present (Figure 72).................................................................................. 3
3. Genotemporal furrow shallow (Figure 72)...................... ...................... A. ryukyuensis Habu
– Genotemporal furrow deep (Figures 73,74)............................................................................... 4
4. Longitudinal carinae extending up to half the length of T 1 (Figure 68)............................. ......................................................................................................................... A. cariniaspis (Cameron)
– Longitudinal carinae less than one-fourth the length of T 1 (Figure 67)........................ 5
5. Post-marginal vein as long as marginal vein (Figure 69)...................................................... 6
– Post-marginal vein 1.25× to 1.5× marginal vein (Figure 70)............................................... 7
6. Head with a sharp angle in front of eyes in lateral view (Figure 74).................................... .............................................................................................................................. A. fascicornis (Walker)
– Head without sharp angle in front of eyes in lateral view (Figure 73)................................. .................................................................................................................................. A. dividens (Walker)
7. Teeth on ventral margin of hind femur occupying 0.7× length of the femur (Figure 77); apex of scutellum deeply emarginate (Figure 75).............................. ...................................................................................................................... A. nasutus (Holmgren)
– Teeth on ventral margin of hind femur occupying less than 0.7× length of the femur (Figure 78); apex of scutellum weakly emarginate (Figure 76).......................................... 8
8. Hind femur red (Figure 78)................................................................ A. phaeospilus Waterston
– Hind femur black with base and apex red (Figure 79).......... A. validicornis (Holmgren)
description: Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 345-346, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701