Troporhogas anamikae Quicke & Ranjith & Loncle & Van Achterberg & Long & Butcher 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Quicke, Donald L. J.
name: Ranjith, A. P.
name: Loncle, Marisa K.
name: Van Achterberg, Cornelis
name: Long, Khuat Dang
name: Butcher, Buntika A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Troporhogas
Troporhogas anamikae

description: Troporhogas anamikae Ranjith sp. nov.   
Figs 8, 9, 10, 21 K  
Type material.  
 Holotype ♀, India • Kerala, Kozhikode, Janakikkad, 3. i. 2020, 11 ° 37.309 ' N, 75 ° 47.308 ' E, sweep net, col. Ranjith, A. P. (AIMB).   
Diagnosis.  
 Troporhogas anamikae sp. nov. is similar to T. tricolor Cameron in having a more or less similar colour pattern but the new species differs in having notauli distinct only in the basal half of mesoscutum (vs notauli complete in T. tricolor), mesosoma yellow dorsally (vs black in T. tricolor), pterostigma mostly yellow (vs completely black in T. tricolor), face with smooth longitudinal area antero-medially (vs completely striated in T. tricolor), ocello-ocular area smooth (vs striated in T. tricolor), midbasal triangular area of propodeum smooth (vs irregularly reticulated in T. tricolor), T 5 longitudinally striated (vs punctate in T. tricolor).   
Description.  
Holotype, female, body length 6.2 mm, fore wing 5.1 mm, ovipositor sheath 0.4 mm.  
 Head. Antenna with 45 flagellomeres. First flagellomere 1.6 × longer than second and third, respectively. Width of head: width of face: height of eye = 2.75: 1.0: 1.5. Shortest distance between posterior ocelli: transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye = 0.7: 2.0: 1.0. Face transversely striate with a smooth longitudinal area antero-medially. Clypeus smooth with sparse setosity laterally. Vertex and temple finely transversely striate. Occipital carina complete, very weakly curved dorsally.   
 Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.5 × longer than high, more or less smooth to coriaceous and setose. Mesoscutum smooth without groove medially, notauli present, crenulated. Scutellar sulcus smooth with seven carinae. Mesopleuron and metapleuron setose, precoxal sulcus broad, upwardly curving, and striate. Propodeum reticulate with long setae and without a mid-longitudinal carina.   
 Wings. Fore wing. Lengths of fore wing veins r-rs: 3 RSa: 3 RSb = 1.0: 2.5: 5.0. Lengths of vein 2 RS: 3 RSa: rs-m = 1.3: 2.4: 1.0.   
 Legs. Lengths of fore femur: fore tibia: fore tarsus = 1.0: 1.1: 1.1. Lengths of hind femur: hind tibia: hind tarsus = 1.0: 1.2: 1.5. Length of hind femur and tibia 5.0 × and 8.5 × as long as wide, respectively. Tarsal claws with large acutely pointed basal lobe.   
 Metasoma. T 1 as long as posteriorly wide. T 2 1.6 × longer than third tergite. TT 1 and 2 with medial longitudinal carina dorsally, distinctly striate. TT 3 and 4 distinctly striate, TT 5 and 6 finely longitudinally striate. Ovipositor sheath straight and shorter than hind basitarsus, ~ 0.2 × length of hind femur (including trochantellus).   
 Colour. Body mostly yellow except antenna, eye, face medially, tip of mandible, frons, ocellar region, occiput, mesopleuron posterior 0.7, metapleuron, propodeum, wing venation, hind leg except trochanter, T 2 with bilobed black mark mid-posteriorly, T 3 largely except anterolateral areas, T 4 with pair of large black marks submedially which reach posterior and posterolateral margin of tergite. Ovipositor sheath brown.   
 Male. Unknown.   
Distribution.  
Kerala (India).  
Host.  
Unknown.  
Etymology.  
APR dedicates this species to his friend Ms Anamika Menon, for her constant support and encouragement.
description: Published as part of Quicke, Donald L. J., Ranjith, A. P., Loncle, Marisa K., Van Achterberg, Cornelis, Long, Khuat Dang & Butcher, Buntika A., 2024, Revision of Troporhogas Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) with six new species from India and Thailand, pp. 99-136 in ZooKeys 1206 on pages 99-136, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1206.120824