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The Folio: F. C. C. Magazine
No full textMaqbool Ahmad Bhatty-Editorial. pp. 1-3; Latif, I.-Farewell Staff Dinner. pp. 3-8; Farewell Hall Meeting. pp. 8-12; Opening Ceremony of the Swimming Pool. pp. 12-13; Weir, J. B.-Convocation Address. pp. 13-15; Valedictory Day. pp. 16-18; Chaudhry, P. C.-Around the College. pp. 18-19; Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty-Prof. E. T. Dean. pp. 20; [Hindi]. 4 p.; Punjabi Phulvari [Punjabi]. 4 p.; The Folio [Urdu]. 6 p.Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Lucas. before page 1; Professor E. T. Dean. after page 20; Lady J. C. R. Ewing. before Hindi secti
Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing Xylotrechus stebbingi (Gahan, 1906) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in India
No full textMaqbool, Iqra, Varga, Oleksandr, Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Banu, A. Najitha, Rather, Sumi Ulah (2022): Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing Xylotrechus stebbingi (Gahan, 1906) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in India. Zootaxa 5150 (1): 121-128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.1.
Pseudopomyzidae-A Family of Diptera new to the Indian Fauna
No full textYatoo, Suhaib Firdous, Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad (2022): Pseudopomyzidae-A Family of Diptera new to the Indian Fauna. Zootaxa 5124 (1): 95-100, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.
Polyamines: natural and engineered abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants
No full textAbstract not availableSyed Sarfraz Hussain, Muhammad Ali, Maqbool Ahmad, Kadambot H.M. Siddiqu
FIGURES 28–34 in First record of the genus Ficobracon (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) from India, with description of new species
No full textFIGURES 28–34. Cultivated trees of Ficus carica and F. palmata (28–31); phytophagous larva (32); pupal cocoon (33); fig with empty cocoon inside (red arrow) and emergence hole outside (black arrow) (34).Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, 2018, First record of the genus Ficobracon (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) from India, with description of new species, pp. 421-428 in Zootaxa 4379 (3) on page 426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/117447
FIGURE 2 in Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing Xylotrechus stebbingi (Gahan, 1906) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in India
No full textFIGURE 2. Xorides xylotrechi sp. n., paratype male. A–B—habitus; A—lateral view; B—dorsal view; C—antenna; D–E— head; D—frontal view; E—lateral view; F–G—mesosoma; F—dorsal view; G—lateral view; H—metasoma, dorsal view.Published as part of Maqbool, Iqra, Varga, Oleksandr, Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Banu, A. Najitha & Rather, Sumi Ulah, 2022, Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing Xylotrechus stebbingi (Gahan, 1906) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in India, pp. 121-128 in Zootaxa 5150 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/661015
FIGURE 14 in First record of the genus Ficobracon (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) from India, with description of new species
No full textFIGURE 14. Ficobracon kashmirensis sp. nov. Female.Wing venation.Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, 2018, First record of the genus Ficobracon (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) from India, with description of new species, pp. 421-428 in Zootaxa 4379 (3) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/117447
Ficobracon kashmirensis Maqbool & Akbar & Wachkoo 2018, sp. nov.
No full textFicobracon kashmirensis Maqbool, Akbar & Wachkoo sp. nov. (Figures 1–27) Diagnosis: Antenna with 23–26 antennomeres; first tergite without medial groove, sublateral grooves distinct; second tergite longitudinally rugulose with smooth medio-basal area surrounded by a rugose pair of grooves, sublateral grooves absent; third tergite longitudinally rugose. This species resembles most to F. codonatus, and the two taxa can be readily separated by the absence of the medial groove on the first tergite and densely rugulose second tergite in F. kashmirensis. Material examined: Holotype ♀: India: Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmir University Botanical Garden, 34.1304°N 74.8369°E, 1,600 m. a.s.l., 10.ix.2016, leg. Amir Maqbool (KUIC); Paratypes: 11 ♀, 20.ix.2016; 1 ♂, 2.x.2016; 3 ♂, 3.x.2016; 5 ♀, 5.x.2016; 3 ♂, 17.x.2016; 3 ♀, 4.xi.2016; 1 ♂, 8.xi.2016; 1 ♀, 6.viii.2017; 16 ♀, 6 ♂, 20.viii.2017; 6 ♀, 30.viii.2017 (same data as holotype) (KUIC; 1♀, 1 ♂ BMNH). 22♀, 17♂, India: Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, 34.0094°N 74.7984°E, 1,640 m. a.s.l., 11.ix.2016, leg. Shahid Ali Akbar (KUIC; 1♀, 1 ♂ CNC). Description. Female (Figs 1–13): Body length 3.70 mm (3.31–4.12 mm in paratypes), fore wing length 4.07 mm (3.69–4.47 mm in paratypes). Head (Figs 4–6): Antenna with 26 antennomeres (23–26 in paratypes) (Fig. 4); first flagellomere slightly longer than second; length of first, second and penultimate flagellomeres respectively 2.8, 1.8, 1.5 × their width. Height of head slightly less than width across eyes (5: 6) (Fig. 5); clypeal ventral margin thin and slightly upcurved, width 0.32 × width of face (Fig. 5); maxillary palp 4-segmented, segments subequal in length; labial palp 3-segmented, segments subequal in length; POL:OD:OOL=1:1:3 (1.0–1.2: 1.0–1.6: 3.0– 3.8 in paratypes). Mesosoma (Figs 7–8): Mesosoma 1.4 (1.2–1.4 in paratypes) times longer than maximum height (Fig. 8); mesopleuron large and smooth, without much pilosity (Fig. 8); metapleuron smooth and shiny but with long setae, pilosity distinct (Fig. 8); notauli shallow and posteriorly obsolescent (Fig. 7); mesoscutum glabrous and smooth with long setae laterally along notauli (Fig. 7); scutellar sulcus distinctly crenulate, deep, wide and straight (Fig. 7); scutellum smooth; metanotum well developed, broader than long (Fig. 7); propodeum smooth, longer than scutellum, with medio-longitudinal carina on its posterior half (Fig. 7). Wings (Fig. 14): Fore wing: r:3-SR:SR1 = 1:2:6 (1.0–1.1: 2.0–2.5: 5.0– 6.5 in paratypes); 2-SR:3-SR:r-m = 1.8:2.0:1.1 (1.4–2.0: 1.7–2.1: 0.8–1.1 in paratypes); angle between veins 2-SR and 2-M about 70; CU1a straight and long. Hind wing: M+CU:1-M = 1:2 (1.0–1.2: 2.0– 2.2 in paratypes); 2-M longer than 1-M. Legs (Fig. 10): Length of hind femur, tibia and basitarsus 4.5, 7.4 and 5.75 × their width (3.8–4.5, 5.88–7.71 and 3.6–5.78 × in paratypes), respectively; length of coxa, trochanter, femur and tibia in ratio 1.63:1.03:2.86:3.13 (1.60–1.71: 1.0–1.2: 2.68–2.86: 3.10–3.22 in paratypes); hind tarsomere lengths in ratio of 5.67:2.66:1.66:1.0:2.0 (5.45–6.10: 2.42–2.71: 1.64–1.66: 1.0–1.1: 1.98–2.1 in paratypes); tibia longer than femur; fore and middle tarsi slender. Metasoma (Figs 9, 11–13): First tergite largely smooth, rugose apically, without medial groove, sublateral grooves converge anteriorly, length 0.8 × its apical width (Fig. 9); second tergite approximately as long as third tergite, longitudinally rugulose with smooth medio-basal area surrounded by a rugose pair of grooves, sublateral grooves absent (Fig. 11); third tergite longitudinally rugose with smooth apical margin; second and third tergite with transverse grooves (Fig. 11); following tergites medially reticulate, laterally rugulose with smooth apical margin, transverse sub-apical grooves present (Figs. 11–12). Ovipositor sheath 1.16 × as long as metasoma, 0.56 × as long as fore wing and 2.62 × length hind tibia (1.14–1.22, 0.54–0.66, 2.60–3.01 × in paratypes respectively), setose (Fig. 13); hypopygium narrow, apically acute, its tip extending 0.2–0.3 mm beyond the metasomal apex. Male (Figs. 15–27). Antenna 23 segments (Fig. 21); first tergite medially smooth, without a medial groove, sublateral grooves distinct (Fig. 25); second tergite longitudinally rugulose with smooth medio-basal area surrounded by a pair of rugose grooves; third to sixth tergites brownish with less coarse sculpture, apical margins smooth (Fig. 26). Colour (Figs. 1–3, 15–17). Body light to dark yellowish brown; antenna, ventral part of mesopleuron, scutellar sulcus, propodeum, hind tibia, tarsal claws, first tergite, most of third tergite, ovipositor sheath, and pterostigma black to dark brown; groove of pronotum, propleuron, side of scutellum, largely dark brown to yellowish; second tergite medially dark brown, sometimes largely yellow; wings subhyaline. Distribution. Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, India. Biology. Both the fig species (Ficus carica and Ficus palmata) in Jammu and Kashmir are frequently visited by Ficobracon kashmirensis (Figs 28–31). The female wasp bores through the fig wall with its ovipositor and lays a single egg inside the unripe fig which hatches in around 22 hrs. Larvae show phytophagous behavior feeding on immature ovaries and form a cocoon to pupate after 11–13 days (Figs 32–33). Adults emerge from cocoons in about 5–6 days and chew out a tunnel through the fig wall (Fig. 34). Emergence starts in the month of July and continues till November. Different females may oviposit on the same fig and multiple cocoons are formed inside a single fig. Others usually follow the same initial tunnel but occasionally other tunnels are also bored. Sexual dimorphism is obvious with females larger (3.31–4.12 mm) than males (2.70–3.19). Etymology. Species epithet is in reference to the type locality.Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, 2018, First record of the genus Ficobracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India, with description of new species, pp. 421-428 in Zootaxa 4379 (3) on pages 422-424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/117447
Xorides xylotrechi Varga, Maqbool & Wachkoo 2022, sp. n.
No full textXorides xylotrechi Varga, Maqbool & Wachkoo, sp. n. (Figs 1–3) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4350BACB-3A31-42D6-9DBD-CF02DA5A5B22 Material examined. Holotype: ♀, INDIA: Jammu and Kashmir, Budgam: Chadoora, 33° 56 31.5 N 74° 48 03.5 E, 1608 m a.s.l., reared 31.x.2019, leg. Amir Maqbool. Paratypes: 3 ♂, the same locality, 05.x.2019. Other material. 3♀, the same locality and date as paratypes, 2♀, the same locality, 06.v.2020, leg. Iqra Maqbool (specimens with removed ovipositors for morphological study) (deposited in: CUZM —A_Maqbool00001 to A_Maqbool00009). Diagnosis. Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. is characterized by the combination of the following characters: body generally black with yellow marks (Fig. 1A, B); antenna simple, not subapically sharply angled at a single joint (Fig. 1C); vertex smooth and shiny, sparsely punctate; occipital carina complete (Fig. 1F); epicnemial carina present (Fig. 1H); fore and middle trochantelli without apical tooth; fore wing with vein 1cu-a distad of vein M&RS by about 0.2× of its length (Fig. 1I); propodeum with distinct carinae and strong tooth-like projections (Fig. 1H); first metasomal tergite 1.5–1.7× as long as apical width, rugulo-punctate, with distinct lateroapical grooves, and weak latero-median carinae present on basal 0.3 of the tergite (absent in males) (Fig. 1J); ovipositor about 1.4–1.6× length of hind tibia; male antenna with long erect setae (Fig. 2C). Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. is similar to Palaearctic X. praecatorius (Fabricius, 1793) and Afrotropical X. konduensis (Benoit, 1952), but differs in having stronger sculptured body and indistinct latero-median carinae on first tergite (carinae are distinct and reaching the apex of the tergite in X. praecatorius and X. konduensis). In addition, Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. lacking red body marks on head and mesosoma (X. praecatorius has abundant yellow body colouration only in combination with largely red body and X. konduensis has red head marks, but yellow colouration reduced). The newly described species also resembles Oriental species, X. asperus Wang & Gupta, 1995 and X. centromaculatus, but differs by the propodeal carination (area basalis and area superomedia separated in Xorides xylotrechi sp. n., while X. centromaculatus and X. asperus — confluent), absence of yellow mark on mesoscutum (present in X. asperus and X. centromaculatus) and different colour pattern of legs. Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. also has dark clypeus comparing to yellow in X. praecatorius, X. asperus and X. centromaculatus. In addition, male of Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. differs from X. praecatorius and X. centromaculatus by the long setae on antenna (males of X. konduensis and X. asperus unknown). Description. Female. Holotype (Fig. 1). Body length approximately 11 mm. Fore wing 8 mm. Head (Fig. 1C–F) smooth and densely pubescent. Antenna subapically not sharply angled at a single joint, with 20 flagellomeres, flagellomeres 17–19 with 5 long sensillae. Face about 0.45× as long as wide, sparsely punctate and weakly rugulose; malar space 0.5× the basal width of mandible, with subocular sulcus distinct; clypeus 0.5× as long as wide, sharply angled on basal 0.25, rugulose, but weaker sculptured (weakly rugulose on shiny surface) on apical 0.75, with rounded apical margin. Temples long and parallel behind eyes, gently rounded (dorsal view), wrinkled in lower part (genae). Frons smooth, with short carina-like projection between antennal sockets; length of the ocellar-ocular distance 1.1× maximum diameter of lateral ocellus. Vertex sparsely punctate; occipital carina complete. Mesosoma (Fig. 1G, H) strongly sculptured and densely pubescent. Propleuron sparsely punctate. Pronotum with epomia distinct and strong, smooth before epomia and densely punctate after. Mesoscutum densely punctate, rugulose centrally, with strong foveolate notauli; scuto-scutellar groove wide, with central longitudinal carina; scutellum densely punctate. Mesopleuron sparsely punctate; epicnemial carina present, almost reaching anterior margin of mesopleuron; sternaulus present, but weak proximally. Metapleuron rugulose, pleural and submetapleural carinae present. Propodeum rugulose, with longitudinal and transverse carinae present and strong; apophyses strong; spiracles elongate. Legs relatively stout; hind femur 3.6× as long as wide, hind coxa smooth and shiny; fore and middle tibiae swollen, with V-shaped median ventral groove; trochantelli without apical tooth; tarsal claws simple. Wings (Fig. 1I). Fore wing with vein 2 rs-m short, about 0.7× the distance between 2 rs-m and 2 m-cu; vein 1cu-a distad of M & RS by about 0.2× of its length; hind wing with distance between distal abscissa of Cu and M about longer than vein cu-a. Metasoma (Fig. 1J) strongly sculptured and densely pubescent. First tergite 1.6× as long as apical width, rugulo-punctate, with distinct lateroapical grooves; latero-median carinae present, but weak on basal 0.4 of the tergite; dorso-lateral carinae reaching 0.75 of the tergite, but weak. Second tergite rugulo-punctate, 0.8× as long as apical width, with two large (but weak) basolateral swellings delimited by the deep grooves. Third tergite densely punctate, swellings weaker; the remaining tergites weakly aciculate. Ovipositor about 1.5× as long as hind tibia, with the apical teeth; ovipositor sheaths densely pubescent. Colour. Body generally black with ivory marks. Head black except inner and outer eye orbits largely (interrupted on vertex), and flagellomeres 9–14 ivory; clypeus brownish. Mesosoma black except large marks of pronotum, mesopleuron, scutellum and postscutellum, propodeum apically ivory. Metasoma generally black with apical ivory bands on tergites 2–8; first tergite with two large lateroapical marks and small central mark on apical margin, partly orange in basal half. Legs generally orange with black and yellow marks; all femora and hind coxae orange; all trochanters and trochantelli marked with black; fore and middle coxae black with ivory marks; fore and middle tibiae orange-brown with yellow lines, hind tibiae orange-brown, yellow subbasally; tarsi brownish. Ovipositor sheaths black. Pterostigma and veins brown. Male (Fig. 2). Body length 9.2–9.6 mm. It generally resembles female, but differs in the following characters: antenna with 25 flagellomeres and long setae (Fig. 2C); propodeum smoother, but with numerous irregular wrinkles (Fig. 2F, G); metasoma stronger sculptured and more slender (Fig. 2H), first tergite 2.0× as long as apical width. Males are generally darker with reduced yellow colouration present as lines on face and frons, spots on genae, pronotum, mesopleuron, scutellum and second metasomal tergite. Variability. Body length 9.6–11.2 mm. Fore wing length 8–9.4 mm. Size of central mark on apical margin of 1 st tergite varying from small, separated from two large lateroapical marks to a wide mark touching the lateroapical marks. Second metasomal tergite partly orange in basal half but orange coloration reduced to a small basomedian mark in two specimens. Etymology. The new species is named after the host of the genus Xylotrechus (Chervolat, 1852). Distribution. Currently known only from North of India. Biology. The newly described species was observed as solitary ectoparasitoid emerging individually from each host. No mating of opposite sexes was observed. Females constantly tap the antennae on the bark to locate the host (Fig. 3A). The subdistal antennal flagellomeres possess hammers (antennal hammers) or pegs-like structures that help in detecting the host. Once the host larva was located, the female balanced its ovipositor on the surface of the bark and started drilling (Fig. 3B). The wasp removed and reinserted the ovipositor 3–4 times before finally inserting the ovipositor for around 20–25 minutes, indicating that females first released paralysing venom (envenomisation) (Fig. 3C) and then laid the egg. A single egg was laid on or by the side of the host (Fig. 3D). The egg has a smooth surface with a typical acuminate form (Fig. 3E). First instar larva hatched in about 84–96 hrs and started feeding on host (Fig. 3F). After feeding for 11–14 days the larva started to spin a cocoon near the remains of the host (Fig. 3G) and completed it in 36–48 hrs. The newly spun cocoon was cottony white and changed colour to yellowish white in a couple of days and ultimately turned golden brown (Fig. 3H). Pupation was completed in 22–26 days and adult emerged 40–44 days after the egg was first laid. Adult emergence was observed till the first week of October and cocoons which spun in late October entered in diapause and did not show any adult emergence. In the last week of April to early May, the adults started emerging from previous years’ cocoons. In all cases, only a single egg on the host larva or a single larva feeding on the host was observed. Dissection experiments revealed that adult wasp possesses a pair of ovaries with three ovarioles in each ovary. In five females dissected, a maximum of 6 mature eggs were observed in the ovaries (Fig. 3J). Long tubules of the venom gland were attached to a venom reservoir through a common duct. Venom reservoir appeared nearly transparent and had a napiform shape. Dufour gland was pear-shaped with a long stalk and appeared slightly yellowish. In lateral view, the Dufour gland and venom reservoir seem to droop somewhat onto the base of the ovipositor shaft.Published as part of Maqbool, Iqra, Varga, Oleksandr, Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Banu, A. Najitha & Rather, Sumi Ulah, 2022, Xorides xylotrechi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) parasitizing Xylotrechus stebbingi (Gahan, 1906) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in India, pp. 121-128 in Zootaxa 5150 (1) on pages 122-127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/661015
Sicus Scopoli 1763
No full textGenus Sicus Scopoli, 1763 Sicus Scopoli, 1763: 360. TYPE SPECIES. — Sicus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1761).Published as part of Maqbool, Amir, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Stuke, Jens-Hermann, Akbar, Shahid Ali & Clements, David K., 2021, Neotype designation and redescription of Sicus indicus Kröber, 1940 (Diptera: Conopidae), pp. 197-203 in Zoosystema 43 (11) on page 199, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a11, http://zenodo.org/record/473392
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