Omphale kamili Jamali & Zeya, 2022

Jamali, Mohd Majid, Zeya, Shahid Bin & Andrabi, Syed Aasif Hussain, 2022, The genus Omphale Haliday (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) from India with description of four new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2), pp. 229-243 : 237-239

Omphale kamili Jamali & Zeya sp. nov. ( Figs 4, 5)

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Material examined. Holotype ♀ (on slide under four coverslips, slide No. EUL.208) INDIA: HIMACHAL PRADESH: Shimla , 28.viii.2014, Coll. K. Veenakumari. ( ZDAMU).

Paratype, 1 ♀ (on card), with same data as for holotype. ( ZDAMU) .

Diagnosis: Omphale kamili Jamali & Zeya sp. nov. resembles a Borneo species O. heydoni Narendran. However , it differs from O. heydoni by the following characters: eye height 2.7× as long as malar space; antenna with 1 distinct anellus; pedicel 1.6× as long as broad; mesoscutellum with longitudinal ridges-like striations; gaster subequal to mesosoma. In O. heydoni : eye height 1.7× as long as malar space; antenna without anellus; pedicel 2.1× as long as broad; mesoscutellum almost smooth; gaster 2× as long as mesosoma.

Description: Female: Body ( Fig. 5B) length, 0.82 mm. Head dark brown. Antenna pale brown. Mesosoma dark brown with greenish reflection. Wings hyaline. Legs pale brown except coxae and femora brown. Gaster dark brown with greenish reflection.

Head ( Fig. 4A) smooth, in frontal view, 1.3× as broad as high; vertex with 12 setae; scrobal groove with lateral margin fuse apically before joining frontal groove; eye height 2.7× as long as malar space; mandible ( Fig. 4B) with many teeth, ventral two teeth larger than others; clypeus semicircular, 1.6× as broad as high; antennal toruli situated at the level of lower eye margin. Antenna ( Fig. 4C) with scape 6× as long as broad, 2.7× as long as pedicel; pedicel 1.6× as long as broad; pedicel + flagellum 2× as long as distance between eyes (40: 19); flagellum with 1 distinct anellus; Fu1–Fu4 individually longer than pedicel; Fu1 0.93× as long and 1.08 as broad as Fu2; Fu3 longer than Fu4; clava 2.3× as long as broad; clava shorter than all funiculars individually.

Mesosoma ( Fig. 4D) 1.3× as long as broad; pronotum narrow, hardly visible in dorsal view; mesoscutum shorter than mesoscutellum with transverse striations; notauli complete; mid lobe of mesoscutum with 4 long setae; side lobes with faintly raised polygonal reticulate sculpture; axillae elongate, extending more than two-thirds length of mesoscutellum; mesoscutellum longer than broad; mesoscutum, axillae and mesoscutellum with longitudinal ridges-like striations; metanotum smooth with 1 seta on each side; dorsellum smooth, with two lateral ridges-like striations converging anteriorly, 0.5× as long as broad and 0.4× median length of propodeum; propodeum smooth, with a median carina anteriorly bifurcate into two branches. Fore wing ( Fig. 4E) 2.6× as long as broad; speculum closed; admarginal setae 9 arising from both marginal vein and from membrane below vein; redial cell setose; marginal vein + parastigma 1.6× as long as submarginal vein, 6.3× as long as stigmal vein; post marginal vein 0.83× stigmal vein; longest marginal seta 0.35× maximum wing width. Hind wing ( Fig. 4F) 6.5× as long as broad with apex pointed; longest marginal seta 0.91× maximum wing width.

Metasoma ( Fig. 4G). Petiole 1.7× as broad as long; gaster subequal to mesosoma; ovipositor with second valvifer inserted in Gt1, exserted beyond apex of gaster; ovipositor 1.8× as long as hind tibia.

Relative measurements (holotype slide, at 100×). Head height: width, 22: 30; eye height, 15; malar space, 5.5; clypeus height: width, 3: 5. Antennomeres length: width – scape, 15: 2.5; pedicel, 5.5: 3.25; Fu1, 5.25: 2.75; Fu2, 6.75: 2; Fu3, 6.75: 2.25; Fu4, 6: 2.5; clava, 4.75: 2; spicula, 2.25. Mesosoma length: width, 38: 28; propodeum length, 7.5. Fore wing length: width, 93: 35; longest marginal seta, 11.5; submarginal vein length, 23; parastigma length, 5; marginal vein length, 33; postmarginal vein length, 5; stigmal vein length, 6. Hind wing length: width, 78: 12; longest marginal seta, 11. Hind tibia length, 27. Metasoma. Petiole length: width, 3.5: 6; gaster length, 40; ovipositor length, 49.

Male: Unknown.

Host: Unknown.

Etymology: The species is named in honour of Prof. Mohd Kamil Usmani, for his contributions to the taxonomy of Indian Acrididae .

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh.