A taxonomic revision of the genus Yelicones Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India with description of two new species Author Gupta, Ankita ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India. Author Pattar, Rohit 0000-0002-2243-3777 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India. rohitppattar5@gmail.com Author Hemanth Kumar, H. M. 0000-0003-0176-7396 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India. hemanthgowda9752@gmail.com Author Sushil, S. N. 0000-0002-5718-1629 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India. snsushil@yahoo.co.uk text Zootaxa 2024 2024-09-18 5512 1 35 52 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3 journal article 303896 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.3 969f245c-f0da-4acf-b367-1624c77535c7 1175-5326 13848409 DCD7BAA2-43BE-4EDB-92A2-EF33C50A68D6

TABLE 1. Showing comparative characters of new species with closely allied Oriental species of Yelicones Cameron.

Characters	Yelicones	Yelicones	Yelicones	Yelicones	Yelicones koreanus	Yelicones achterbergi	Yelicones
	andamanensis sp. n.	elaeodendronicus sp. n.	contractus Papp,	belokobylskiji	Papp, 1985	Rishabanu et al.,	samaesanensis
			1991	Quicke, Chishti		2021	Butcher, 2014
	Female (male			and Chen, 1997	Female	Male measurements	Female
	measurements in	Male (female unknown)	Female	Female	measurements from	from original	measurements
	parenthesis)		measurements from	measurements from	original description	description (female	from original
			original description	original description		unknown)	description
			(male unknown)
Body length	4.38–4.44 (4.58) mm	7.55 mm, large species	4.5 mm	6.1–7.6 mm, large	5.00 mm	4.63 mm	4.5 mm
				species
Occiput margin	Weakly convex	Convex	Convex with notch	Convex	Convex	Convex	Obsolete dorso-
			in middle				medially, distinct
							laterally
Temple	Subtly constricted;	Rounded not constricted,	Distinctly	Rounded; eye	Rounded and not	Rounded; eye 1.5 ×	Rounded; eye 1.3 ×
	eye 2.5–2.6 (2.4) × as	curved; eye 1.45 × as	constricted; eye 3 ×	2.36–2.8 × as long	constricted; eye	as long as temple	as long as temple
	long as temple	long as temple	as long as temple	as temple	1.66 × as long as
					temple
OOL: POL	2.6–2.9 (2.4)	4.73 ×	5 ×	3.0–3.5 ×	1.9–2 ×	2.82 ×	Equal
Inter-tentorial	2.4 (2.2) ×	2.8 ×	Tentorial pits	2.5–3.1×	-	3 ×	5 ×
distance:			somewhat nearer
tentorio-ocular			to eye than to each
distance			other
Notauli	Indistinct, with	Notaular line dark brown	-	Notauli deeply	Notaular line	Present, distinct	Weakly developed,
	faint impression on	coloured on anterior two		impressed	piceous on anterior		indistinctly
	anterior one thirds	thirds and with a dark		throughout	two thirds and		impressed
		line connecting them in		entire length of	with a dark line		throughout length
		front of posterior margin		mesoscutum, with	connecting them in		of mesoscutum
				weak carinations	front of posterior
					margin
Vein r:	1.5 ×	1.01 ×	1.3 ×	-	Equal	1.2 ×	Almost equal
pterostigma
width
	andamanensis sp. n.	elaeodendronicus sp. n.	contractus Papp,	belokobylskiji	Papp, 1985	Rishabanu et al.,	samaesanensis
			1991	Quicke, Chishti		2021	Butcher, 2014
	Female (male			and Chen, 1997	Female	Male measurements	Female
	measurements in	Male (female unknown)	Female	Female	measurements from	from original	measurements
	parenthesis)		measurements from	measurements from	original description	description (female	from original
			original description	original description		unknown)	description
			(male unknown)
r:3-SR	1.1 (1.3) ×	0.85 ×	1.6 ×	1.28–2 ×	Equal	1.3 ×	0.5 ×
2M:2-SR+M	2.3 (2) ×	1.94 ×	1.1 ×	1.15–1.71 ×	-	2.2 ×	3 ×
2Cu1:1Cu1	5 (4.6) ×	1.78 ×	4 ×	2.83–3.73	1.8 ×	2 ×	1.5 ×
Hind wing	Transverse	Indistinct	Transverse	Absent	-	Transverse	Weakly transverse
2-SC+R
Marginal cell of	Strongly expanded	Not strongly expanded	Strongly expanded	Not strongly	Not strongly	Strongly expanded	Strongly expanded
hind wing	basally	basally	basally	expanded basally	expanded basally	basally	basally
First tergite	1.24–1.36 (1.5) × as	1.2–1.3 × as long as wide	1.48 × as long as	1.17–1.65 × as	Almost equal	1.2 × as long as wide	1.1 × wider than
	long as wide		wide	wide as long			medially long
Second	a) T2 without distinct	a) T2 with basal	a) T2 with trace of	a) T2 anterio-	a) T2 with basal	a) T2 without basal	a) T2 anterio-
metasomal	basal triangular area	triangular area punctate,	mid-basal, obtuse,	medially with	triangular area	triangular area	medially with
tergite (T2)	and without median	with median carina	triangular area	smooth triangular	b) T2 anterior two-		indistinct triangular
	longitudinal carina	b) T2 largely punctate,	b) T2 polished	area, with median	third with finer	b) T2 smooth (except	area
	b) T2 finely striate	coarse and sparse	except its base	carina extending	though denser	with few rugae at	b) T2 completely
	in anterior half,	striations in anterior one-	with short and fine	entire length of	striations than	anterior margin) and	striate, without
	posteriorly smooth	third; remaining tergites	striations; T2–T7	tergite	of first tergite,	shiny with sparse	median carina
	without striations;	punctate	polished	b) T2 punctate-	remaining T2	obsolete pits
	remaining tergites			areolate	and T2 onwards
	smooth and shiny				polished
Suture between	Distinct	Distinct	Indistinct	Distinct, straight,	Indistinct	Indistinct	Distinct, straight
second and third				crenulate			and deeply
tergite							crenulate