Description of the males of the subgenus Eofoersteria Mathot, 1966 (Hym., Mymaridae, Camptoptera Foerster), with new distributional records in India

Anwar, Prince Tarique; Zeya, Shahid Bin; Khan, Farmanur Rahman; Usman, Syeda Uzma

doi:10.52547/jibs.7.4.437

Description of the males of the subgenus Eofoersteria Mathot, 1966 (Hym., Mymaridae, Camptoptera Foerster), with new distributional records in India

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Prince Tarique Anwar ¹

Shahid Bin Zeya ¹

Farmanur Rahman Khan ²

Syeda Uzma Usman ³

¹ Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India.

² Department of Biology, Deanship of Educational Services, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.

³ Department of Zoology, Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, Rampur – 244901, Uttar Pradesh, India.

10.52547/jibs.7.4.437

Abstract

Males of the subgenus Eofoersteria Mathot (Hym., Mymaridae, Camptoptera Foerster) are diagnosed, described, and illustrated for the first time, based on examination of specimens from Tamil Nadu and from photographs of the male paratype of Camptoptera matcheta Subba Rao from Karnataka. New distributional records of C. (Eofoersteria) manipurensis (Rehmat & Anis) from Karnataka and Kerala states of India are documented.

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Keywords

Eofoersteria

Male

Diagnosis

Description

new records

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