Hockeria manii Narendran, 1989

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Hockeria manii Narendran, 1989

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Dharbandora, Mollem National Park, 9 February 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Ambedem, 12 March 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; 20 June 2019, 2 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; 9 February 2019, 4 females, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas; Honda, 3 September 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas .

Description

Female, length of the body 2.5– 3 mm.

Colour. Body largely black with following pale brown: scape, pedicel, tegulae, fore tarsi, mid-leg except for coxa, hind tarsi, apex and base of the hind femur, hind tibia dorsally.

Head. Triangular, wider than long. Scrobe shallow and not reaching anterior ocellus. Scape 8× as long as broad. Antennae long and slender. POL 5× OOL.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum densely punctate with interstices narrower than the distance between punctures. Scutellum emarginate with weak lobes. Fore wing with 2 brown infuscations and a hyaline spot in between. Post-marginal vein shorter than marginal and stigmal vein.

Metasoma. Metasoma longer than mesosoma. T1 with 3 basal carinae.

Distribution

INDIA. Goa (new record), Kerala (Emiliyamma 2016) .