Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species

Species of Prionomastix Mayr were not known from India when Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar 2011 and Rameshkumar and Poorani 2015 misidentified a new species as P. siccarius. Now it is corrected by explaining the characters as to why it is new and not P. siccarius along with another new species. As w...

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Published inBiodiversity data journal Vol. 4; no. 4; p. e7326
Main Authors Krishnachaitanya, Tirunagaru, Manickavasagam, Sagadai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 08.03.2016
Subjects
Animalia
Asia
Encyrtidae
Hymenoptera
New species
Physical characteristics
Prionomastix
Systematics
Taxonomic Paper
India
Encyrtini
Bihar
Prionomasticina
Chalcidoidea
Tamil Nadu
Encyrtinae
key
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Summary:Species of Prionomastix Mayr were not known from India when Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar 2011 and Rameshkumar and Poorani 2015 misidentified a new species as P. siccarius. Now it is corrected by explaining the characters as to why it is new and not P. siccarius along with another new species. As we have one another new species, P. orientialis, described by Rameshkumar and Poorani 2015 our two new species are compared with P. orientalis also. Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), one from Bihar state and the other from Tamil Nadu state, India, are described viz., P. tamilnadensis sp. nov and P. biharensis sp. nov. and a key to all known Indian species is provided.
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Academic editor: Francisco Hita Garcia
ISSN:1314-2828
1314-2836
1314-2828
DOI:10.3897/BDJ.4.e7326