Hockeria argentigera Holmgren 1868
- Dataset
- Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Chalcididae
- genus
- Hockeria
- species
- Hockeria argentigera
description
(Figures 37, 38) Hookeria argentigera Holmgren 1868
description
Description Female, length of the body 4.8 mm. Colour. Body black with fore and mid tarsi pale brown. Head. Triangular, wider than long, scrobe flat with striations. Antennae long and slender. Pre- and postorbital carinae absent. Genotemporal furrow absent. POL 4 × OOL. Mesosoma. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate and interstices carinate. Scutellum emarginate and bilobed at the apex. Fore wing with 2 brown infuscations and a hyaline spot in the middle. Hind femur bilobed ventrally. Metasoma. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T 1 smooth and shiny with 2 basal carinae which are shorter than the distance between them.
distribution
Distribution INDIA. Goa (new record) Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal (Emiliyamma 2016).
materials_examined
Material examined INDIA: Goa, Sattari, Ambedem, 11 March 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll. Sandesh Gawas.
Name
- Homonyms
- Hockeria argentigera Holmgren 1868