taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	description	Figs 1 − 3 Measurements: Length of body in dorsal view 2.09 mm (holotype, Fig. 1 A); antenna 1.9 mm (holotype) and fore wing 1.8 mm (holotype). Female. Colour: Body yellowish brown. Antenna yellowish brown. Legs yellowish, paler than antenna. Head yellow except eyes and stemmaticum / ocellar region black, ocelli brown, tip of mandible dark brown. Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum yellowish (lateral lobes of mesoscutum, darker); tegula dark brown; propodeum light brown with dark brown carinae; T 1 (median tergite) brown; T 2 yellow testaceous except brown patch laterally; T 3 ‒ T 6 with brown continuous lateral colouration in the form of band; T 7 yellow testaceous. Pterostigma pale testaceous; hind tibia medially pale yellow. Ovipositor sheath brown. Head (Fig. 1 B, 1 C): Width 1.47 × median length in frontal view (0.5: 0.34); antenna with 20 ‒ 21 flagellomeres and almost of same length as fore wing (1.9: 1.8); area of stemmaticum shiny (Fig. 1 C); OOL: diameter of median ocellus: POL = 0.09: 0.02: 0.06; vertex smooth; temple with faint striations; frons, clypeus and malar space smooth without prominent sculpture. Head throughout with pale setae sparsely spread. Malar space 0.26 × eye length in profile. Mesosoma (Fig. 2 A): 1.74 × as long as wide; pronotum smooth and short; mesoscutum (sides) smooth and shiny; notauli not distinct; middle lobe with a median longitudinal groove with faint rugosity; scutellar sulcus narrow with two costulae; scutellum smooth and shiny; metanotum with carinae; propodeum coarsely reticulate rugose with distinct longitudinal and transverse carinae, median carina absent, median areola present, stalked (closed anteriorly). Fore wing 2.58 × as long as wide; r = 0.11, issued almost in middle of pterostigma, as long as width of pterostigma; pterostigma 4.3 × longer than wide; 3 - SR = 0.09; SR- 1 = 0.57. Second abscissa of the radius 0.86 × as long as the first. Metasoma (Fig. 1 D): Oval in dorsal view and 1.93 × as long as wide, 1.09 × as long as mesosoma in lateral view; T 1 median tergite strongly sclerotized, smooth and shiny, with lateral protrusion medially, 1.28 × as long as its maximum width. Tergites following second tergite membranous except lateral margins. Sternites not conspicuously dark on sides, apical sternite without a darkened sclerotized patch on each side. Ovipositor sheath 1.66 − 1.7 × longer than hind metatarsus; 0.77 × as long as hind tibia and 0.65 × length of metasoma less petiole. Ovipositor slender and curved in profile. Male (Fig. 3): Similar to female except for following characters: Colouration relatively darker than female, propodeum dark brown and carinae not visible based on colouration; body length 1.59 mm in lateral view; antenna with 22 flagellomeres; antennal length 2.25 (longer than body); fore wing 1.45 (shorter than body length).	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype — female, INDIA: Maharashtra: Pune, Narayangaon, 19.1229 ° N, 73.9771 ° E, 23. viii. 2016, ex indeterminate host (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) on Dalbergia sp., coll. S. K. Rajeshwari, code — NBAIR / Brac / Para / 241116 A (NBAIR). Paratypes: one female, one male, 24. xi. 2016, same data as holotype, code — NBAIR / Brac / Para / 241116 B (NBAIR). All types deposited in the National Insect Museum (ICAR- NBAIR), Bengaluru, India.	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is derived based on the resemblance in general appearance with other conspecific Indian species.	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. India: Maharashtra: Pune.	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	biology_ecology	Host. Indeterminate genus (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae) (Fig. 4) on the host plant Dalbergia sp.	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
03D9911DA7348D37FF16FBA1FE58D5FB.taxon	discussion	Comments. Parahormius similis sp. n. comes close to P. deiphobus Nixon in key to Indian & African species by Nixon (1940), however it differs in the following characters: colouration of metasoma (T 1 (median tergite) brown, T 2 yellow testaceous except brown patch laterally, T 3 ‒ T 6 with brown continuous lateral colouration in the form of band and T 7 yellow testaceous vs sclerotized patches at lateral margins of T 4 and T 5 less defined, sclerotized band of T 6 widely excised in middle in P. deiphobus); antenna (20 − 21 vs 23 segmented in female); fore wing veins (3 - SR marginally shorter than r / subequal vs 3 - SR hardly more than half as long as r). Parahormius similis sp. n. comes close to P. jason Nixon in having fore wing veins r and 3 - SR almost equal in length however differs in the following characters- antennae (20 − 21 vs 19 segmented in P. jason); malar space (0.26 × vs more than one third of the eye length); mesoscutum (with a median longitudinal groove with faint rugosity in mid lobe vs entirely smooth); ovipositor sheath (1.7 × longer than hind metatarsus vs equal); T 6 (with lateral sclerotized band vs well defined complete sclerotized band). Parahormius similis sp. n. differs with P. zonus in not having malar space to eye length ratio as 1: 6 (vs nearly 1: 4 in P. similis sp. n.). For the remaining Indian species P. absonus, P. rameshii and P. stom, the vein 3 - SR is distinctly longer than r (vs 0.8 in P. similis sp. n.).	en	Gupta, Ankita (2021): A new species of the genus Parahormius Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hormiinae) parasitic on host pupae of Lyonetiidae (Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa 5052 (2): 292-296, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.9
