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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-49837782016-08-25 Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species Krishnachaitanya, Tirunagaru Manickavasagam, Sagadai Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper 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. Pensoft Publishers 2016-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4983778/ /pubmed/27563277 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7326 Text en Tirunagaru Krishnachaitanya, Sagadai Manickavasagam http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Manickavasagam, Sagadai
Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title_full Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title_fullStr Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title_full_unstemmed Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title_short Two new species of Prionomastix Mayr (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with a key to Indian species
title_sort two new species of prionomastix mayr (hymenoptera: encyrtidae) with a key to indian species
topic Taxonomic Paper
url 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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