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

Abstract. BACKGROUND: 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 ano...

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Autores principales: Krishnachaitanya, Tirunagaru, Manickavasagam, Sagadai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4983778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563277
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7326
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Sumario:Abstract. BACKGROUND: 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. NEW INFORMATION: 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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