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Published: 2016-09-15
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A new species of Nyleta Dodd (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from Southeast Asia

National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources
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Veenakumari Kamalanathan

Division of Insect SystematicsPrincipal Scientist
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources
Platygastroidea Scelioninae India egg parasitoids.

Abstract

The monotypic genus Nyleta was described by Dodd from Australia in 1926, with Nyleta striaticeps Dodd as the type species. A new species of Nyleta is now described and imaged from the remote island of Little Andaman in the Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands in the Indian Ocean. Variants of the same species were also collected from Tamil Nadu. The images of the holotype of N. striaticeps are also provided for the first time.