The genus Gonatocerus Nees (Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from India with descriptions of two new species

Abstract

Two new species of Gonatocerus of the ater group from India, namely G. hayati sp. nov., and G. kashipurensis sp. nov., are described from the states of Uttarakhand and West Bengal. New records of G. kodaianus (Mani and Saraswat), G. trialbifuniculatus Subba Rao, G. ater Foerster, G. sahadevani (Subba Rao and Kaur) and G. monticolus Zeya, and a key to the Indian species of ater group are also given.

Keywords:

• Mymaridae
• Gonatocerus
• new species
• new records
• India

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Prof. Mohammad Hayat, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for reviewing the manuscript and criticism. We thank Prof. Irfan Ahmad, Chairman, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for providing research facilities. We gratefully acknowledge the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, and Dr V V Ramamurthy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, National Coordinator of the Network Project on Insect Biosystematics for financial assistance.