A review of Taeniogonalos (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) from India with the description of two new species

ABSTRACT

Taeniogonalos Schulz is reviewed from India with Taeniogonalos ayyari Binoy, van Achterberg and Girish Kumar, sp. nov. and Taeniogonalos latae Polaszek and Binoy, sp. nov. newly described and illustrated from South India (Tamil Nadu). New synonymy is proposed for Taeniogonalos kerala Ayyar, 1919 (= Poecilogonalos henicospili Rohwer, 1929). A key to species occurring in India and a distribution map of species occurring in South India are also provided.

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KEYWORDS:

• Parasitoids
• key
• Tamil Nadu
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to authorities at the Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, PG & Research Department of Zoology, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, and Officer-in-Charge, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, for providing facilities and encouragement. The authors explicitly thank Dr James Hogan, Collections Manager (Life Collections), and authorities at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England for the strenuous effort to image the holotype of the long debated species T. thwaitesii (Westwood). The authorities at the US National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, and Dr Hua-Yan Chen are thankfully acknowledged for the images of T. henicospili, T. mimus [holotype images] and non-type of T. gestroi respectively. Dr Mark A. Metz (editor, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington) is thanked for his swift reply on the copyright for the image from Clausen (1929) used in the paper. CB is financially supported for his PhD by UGC via NFSC. Hua-Yan Chen (Guangzhou), Arkady Lelej (Vladivostok), two anonymous reviewers and Jann Vendetti (Associate Editor) suggested many useful improvements to the previous version of this paper.

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