Apanteles oritias Nixon 1965
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: He, Jun-Hua
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles oritias

description: Apanteles oritias Nixon, 1965   
(Figures 63, 102, 104n)  
 Apanteles oritias Nixon, 1965: 68. Holotype ♀ (examined)— India [NHM. Fig. 104n]. Chen & Song, 2004: 76.   
 Diagnosis. Body length 2.0 mm, fore wing length 2.5 mm. Body black, hind femur bright yellow. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus slightly longer than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna slightly longer than body length, penultimate flagellomere 2.0× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum slightly smaller than its diameter. Areola on propodeum poorly-defined, without costulae, posterio-lateral parts with some carinae. Pterostigma 3.3× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.5× longer than pterostigma, vein r as long as vein 2-SR, weakly angled at junction. T1 strongly constricted from base towards apex, 3.0× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, with fine wrinkles laterally, longitudinal channel indistinct with strong rugosity; T2 shiny, 5.0× wider than long in the middle; T3 2.2× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath 1.2× longer than hind tibia.   
 Host. According to literature, Ficus is the host plant (Nixon, 1965).   
 Material examined. 1♀, Chongqing, 1987.IX.3, ditto, No. 878452; 1♀, Mt. Qingyun, Yongqin, Fujian, 2002.IX.18, Li Fangfang, No. 20023195; 1♀, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 1988, Liang Weiguang, No. 888978; 1♀, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 1989.X.5, Sun Yuzhen, No. 20004711; 1♀, Menghai, Yunnan, 1981.IV.17, He Junhua, No. 811756; 1♀, Yun County, Yunnan, 1981.IV.23, ditto, No. 812679; 1♀, Ruili, Yunnan, 1981.V.5, ditto, No. 812863; 1♀, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 1981.VIII.8, Wang Rongwei, No. 815168; 2♀♀, ditto, 1989.IX.1, He Junhua, Nos. 895950, 895953; 2♀♀, ditto, 1989.VIII.18 /25, ditto, Nos. 895902, 895874; 2♀♀, ditto, 1989.IX.15 /29, ditto, Nos. 896139, 896022; 1♀, ditto, 1983.VI.28, Shi Zuhua, No. 831617; 1♀, ditto, 1989.XI.3, He Junhua, No. 896941; 1♀, ditto, 1987.VI.4, Xu Zhihong, No. 870819; 3♀♀, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 1983.VIII.8, Shi Zuhua, No. 831971; 1♀, Mt. Gutian, Zhejiang, 1986.VII.20, Xu Weiliang, No. 863041; 1♀, Dongyang, Zhejiang, 1987.VIII.10, Xu Weiliang, No. 875213; 1♀, Tiantai, Zhejiang, 1987.VIII, Chen Jianming, No. 878374; 1♀, Quzhou, Zhejiang, 1984.VIII, Chen Jingrong, No. 845779; 1♀, Haiyan, Zhejiang, 1985.X.19, Wang Hongxiang, No. 853479; 1♀, Yiwu, Zhejiang, 1986.VIII.1–3, Lou Xiaoming, No. 863587; 1♀, Mt. Longwang, Anji, Zhejiang, 1993.VIII.31, Chen Xuexin, No. 939725; 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1982.X.8–10, Ma Yun, No. 826179.   
 Distribution. China (Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); India.   
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions and type specimen except pterostigma a little yellowish (Fig. 63b).
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, pp. 1-205 in Zootaxa 4807 (1) on pages 131-133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639