Epitranus longicaudatus: A new species of chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae, Epitraninae) from southern India

Binoy, C.; Santhosh, S.; Nasser, M.

doi:10.61186/jibs.10.4.737

Epitranus longicaudatus: A new species of chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae, Epitraninae) from southern India

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

C. Binoy ¹

S. Santhosh ²

M. Nasser ¹

¹ Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala-673635, India

² Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala-673001, India

10.61186/jibs.10.4.737

Abstract

A new species, Epitranus longicaudatus sp. nov., is described with illustrations from South India, expanding the genus Epitranus Walker to 73 species globally and 18 from India. The new species is compared with the congeneric species E. salinae Narendran, originally described from Malaysia. Both E. longicaudatus sp. nov. and E. salinae are easily identified within the monotypic subfamily in having large metasoma, more than twice as long as petiole and having gastral terga following the first, telescopic and retracted beneath the first. E. salinae is also diagnosed and illustrated using digital images for the first time. These two species complex is the largest of all described Epitranus.

Graphical Abstract

Epitranus longicaudatus: A new species of chalcidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae, Epitraninae) from southern India

Keywords

Chalcidoidea

Malaysia

parasitoid

Oriental

nomenclature

Taxonomy

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