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Mangalorea hopeae Takagi, 1992 (Beesoniidae: Mangalorea)

Mangalorea hopeae Takagi 1992a: 10. Type data: INDIA: Southern India, Udupi Region, near Mangalore coast, on Hopea ponga. Holotype, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Notes: Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Hopea ponga | RamanTa1992 Takagi1992a | The females induce galls on vegetative axillary buds of {Hopea ponga}.

Countries: 1

Systematics: The male of Mangalorea hopeae shows some similarities to B. dipterocarpi, most particularly in the abundant fleshy setae throughout the body, although those on B. dipterocarpi are rather longer. However, M. hopeae differs from Beesonia species in having: (i) only one size of fleshy setae on the antennae (two); (ii) numerous setae laterodorsally on prothorax (few or absent); (iii) legs with a separate tibia and tarsus (fused); (iv) abdomen elongate (not unusually elongate); (v) segment VIII not very sclerotised (distinctly sclerotised); (vi) penial sheath short, less than 1/4th length of abdomen (very elongate, about as long or longer than abdomen); (vii) penial sheath with some longish setae (only short setae present); (viii) loculate disc-pores associated with glandular pouches not extending either medially or laterally (extending medially across segment VIII) and (xi) in lacking capitate setae on the antennal apex (present). (Hodgson, 2020
General Remarks: Description and illustration of first instar larva, intermediate instars, adult female and adult male by Takagi (1992a).