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(Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from Kashmir, India with the Description of One New Species J Insect Biodivers Syst 05(2): 127–141 ISSN: 2423-8112 JOURNAL OF INSECT BIODIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS Research Article http://jibs.modares.ac.ir http://zoobank.org/References/F9ACCEC8-03AE-4230-92E9-F7A9E6ACD995 A taxonomic study of the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from Kashmir, India with the description of one new species Raveendran K.P. Hanima1, Puthuvayi Girish Kumar1, Pavittu Meethal Sureshan1 and Altaf Hussain Sheikh2 1 Western Ghats Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. 2 Government Degree College, Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir- 192305, India. ABSTRACT. A new species of tiphiid wasp, namely, Tiphia kashmirensis Hanima & Girish Kumar sp. nov. is described from Kashmir, India. Male of Received: Tiphia khasiana is described for the first time. Key to species of Tiphia from the 02 May, 2019 Indian subcontinent of Allen (1975) is modified here to accommodate the new Accepted: species and male of T. khasiana. 08 June, 2019 Published: 13 June, 2019 Subject Editor: Key words: Tiphia kashmirensis, New species, T. khasiana, T. exacta, key Ali Asghar Talebi Citation: Hanima, R.K.P., Girish Kumar, P., Sureshan, P.M. & Sheikh, A.H. (2019) A taxonomic study of the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from Kashmir, India with the description of one new species. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 5 (2), 127–141. Introduction Tiphia Fabricius, 1775 is the largest genus species of Tiphia from Kashmir and discuss among the subfamily Tiphiinae of the the affinities of the new species with its family Tiphiidae. Wasps of this genus are nearest relatives. Male of Tiphia khasiana is the predominant parasitic insects that described for the first time. To attack white grubs in the soil (Rogers & accommodate the new species and male of Potter, 2002). This genus contains about 500 T. khasiana, the Allen’s (1975) key to the described species worldwide and about 100 Indian subcontinent species of Tiphia is from the Oriental Region (Kimsey, partly modified. unpublished data). Sixty-nine species are reported from the Indian subcontinent of Material and methods which 61 from India and only three from The specimens were collected from Kashmir (Allen, 1975; Krombein, 1982; different localities of Kashmir using sweep Bartalucci, 2011). The Kashmir species are: net. The specimens were then pinned and Tiphia pulchaukiae (Allen, 1975), T. palmi photographed using a LEICA M 205A (Krombein, 1938), and T. exacta (Nurse, Stereo microscope equipped with a LEICA 1903). In this paper, we describe a new DFC 500 Camera. All studied specimens Corresponding authors: Raveendran K.P. Hanima, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2019, Hanima et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 128 New species of Tiphia including types of new species are with transverse groove intersected with deposited at ZSIK. ridges (Fig. 4), apical part of median lobe of Abbreviations are used for the clypeus smooth and not punctured, legs Museums: BMNH — The Natural History black (except on the sides of spur of fore Museum, formerly British Museum tibia orange coloured), sixth sternum with (Natural History), London, England; elongated vitta, POL 1.9x LOL. Female is HDOU — Hope Department of also characterised by having antennal Entomology, Oxford University, England; flagellum (except F1) dull reddish in ZSIK — Western Ghat Regional Centre, ventral side, lateral pronotum with a short Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode. groove in middle of disk, middle and hind Abbreviations are used in the trochanters, femur and tibia entirely bright description: EL = Eye length; F = Flagellar red; apical margin of clypeal lobe rounded segments; HL = Head length; HW = Head or plane and not smooth, POL 2.08x LOL. width; IOD = Interocular distance; LOL = Description: Holotype ♂ (Figs 1–7). Lateral ocellar length; OOL = Ocellocular Head: Shining, punctate with setigerous length; POL = Posterior ocellar length; TL = punctures; frons with punctures irregularly Total body length. spaced and with interspaces not narrower The terminology used in the description than ocellus (Fig. 2); HW 1.74x least follows Allen (1975). distance between eyes; eye without setae; ocelli forming acute triangle; POL 1.9x LOL Results and 0.8x OOL; longitudinal carina in lower Tiphia kashmirensis Hanima & Girish front above antennal toruli small and Kumar, sp. nov. (Figs 1–16) punctures adjacently placed at sides of this http://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/723C carina; temple with scattered white setae, C269-777C-4A29-8447-DE3F522B3A91 wider than antennal fossa; median lobe of Material examined: Holotype ♂, India: clypeus emarginate, apical part of median Kashmir, Srinagar district, Shalimar garden lobe smooth, without punctures; mandible (34°08'56.40" N, 74°52'22.80" E), stout, slightly curved, with a small inward 02.VIII.2018, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh, depression at apex and without preapical ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV.12268. denticle; antennae 13–segmented, masked Paratypes: 1♀, same collection data as that with small setae (setae large and sparsely of holotype, ZSIK Regd. No. concentrated in scape), scape with ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV.12269; 3♀♀, Pulwama setigerous punctured region mixed with (33°52'18.62'' N, 74°53'57.75'' E), 06.VII.2018, smooth regions and coarsely punctured in Coll. Altaf Hussein Sheikh, ZSIK Regd. Nos. ventral side, small constriction in between ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV.12270–12272. scape and pedicel; length of scape: pedicel: Diagnosis: Male of this species is F1: F2: F3: F4: F5: F6: F7: F8: F9: F10: F11 = characterised by having upper half of frons 0.304: 0.109: 0.128: 0.142: 0.160: 0.160: 0.158: with inter spaces between punctures not 0.173: 0.165: 0.163: 0.160: 0.172: 0.257. narrower than ocellus (Fig. 2), metanotum Mesosoma: Uneven and with scattered with less concentration of punctures in punctures in dorsal part except propodeum middle (Fig. 3), and POL 0.80-0.84x OOL. (Fig. 3); dorsal side of pronotum with low and Male is also characterised by having weak anterior transverse carina, posterior antennal flagellum black, lateral pronotum part without punctures except laterally; Hanima et al. 129 Figures 1–7. Tiphia kashmirensis Hanima & Girish Kumar sp. nov., Holotype, male. 1. Body profile; 2. Head, frontal view; 3. Mesosoma, dorsal view; 4. Mesosoma, lateral view; 5. Wings; 6. Metasoma, dorsal view; 7. Genitalia. 130 New species of Tiphia lateral side of pronotum (Fig. 4) with a Metasoma: Smooth with many punctures broad, short transverse groove, crossed and hairs (Fig. 6); metasoma 1.5x as long as with 1-4 ridges, a smooth surface above the mesosoma; first tergum without anterior groove (side toward tegula with strong transverse carina; second tergum with setigerous punctures and side toward head linearly arranged longitudinal small ridges with ridges) and adjacently placed and grooves; all terga with a mixture of transverse striations below the groove; small and large setigerous punctures; fifth mesoscutum coarsely punctured; sternum with lateral denticle and sixth mesopleuron entirely punctured and sternum with elongated vitta bordered by covered with setae; metanotum in middle setae and punctures; last visible metasomal part smooth without punctures, laterally sternum forming medial up curved hook; with large strong punctures; tegula genitalia as in figure 7. punctured in the inner part (concentration Colour: Body black except on sides of fore high on lower corner), 1.35x as long as its tibial spur and middle margin of most median width; dorsal side of propodeum apical part of pronotum with orange shade. (Fig. 3) entirely sculptured, areola Wings hyaline, fore wing with a brown tricarinate, basal part of lateral two carina tinge with stigma and veins black. Body curved outward and apically straight, setae silvery white. middle one reaching to apex, many Measurements (mm): HL – 1.611; HW – bridging ridges between middle and each 1.213; EL – 0.903; the least distance between lateral carina (present on almost three- eyes – 0.696; IOD – 1.206; POL – 0.203; LOL fourth of areola), longitudinally arranged – 0.106; OOL – 0.252; length of scape – small grooves and ridges arise from the 0.304; length pedicel – 0.109; F1 – 0.128; F2 posterior margin of dorsal side of – 0.142; F3 – 0.160; F4 – 0.160; F5 – 0.158; propodeum, submarginal carina present F6 – 0.173; F7 – 0.165; F8 – 0.163; F9 – and from it small, transversely oriented 0.160; F10 – 0.172; F11 – 0.257; length of elevated ridges arise, strong aciculate areola – 0.414; apical width of areola – striations in the lateral part of areola, 0.195; basal width of areola – 0.281; length adjacent to lateral carina, with irregularly of sectors of second cubital cell inner – shaped ridges; median length of areola 2.1x 0.184, top – 0.436, outer – 0.396, bottom – its apical width and 1.47x its basal width, 0.443; length of mesosoma – 3.5; length of lateral side of propodeum on upper part metasoma – 5.26; TL – 10.37. with moderately well spaced rugae and Paratype: ♀ (Figs 8–16) (description based lower part with longitudinal ridges, on specimen from Shalimar garden). Head: posterior side of propodeum largely Shining, with scattered setigerous reticulate, covered with setae in basal three punctures; head 1.5x as wide as IOD at half but apex
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