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Issue: Vol. 4387 No. 1: 26 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.6
Page range: 134–156
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Five new species of Cleruchus from the Oriental region and report of Anaphes quinquearticulatus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India

Parasitoid Taxonomy and Biocontrol laboratory, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Chidambaram—608 002, Tamil Nadu, India
Entomology Research Museum, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521, USA.
Parasitoid Taxonomy and Biocontrol laboratory, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Chidambaram—608 002, Tamil Nadu, India
Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea fairyfly taxonomy identification key parasitoid

Abstract

An overview of the Oriental species of Cleruchus Enock (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) is given, and its five newly described species as well as one undescribed species from Malaysia are keyed. The described new taxa are C. funiculatus Manickavasagam & Palanivel sp. n., C. indicus Manickavasagam & Palanivel sp. n. and C. orientalis Manickavasagam & Palanivel sp. n., all from India, C. blimp Triapitsyn sp. n. from Brunei, and C. pmilb Triapitsyn sp. n. from Thailand. Anaphes quinquearticulatus Huber & Triapitsyn is newly reported from India.

 

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