Two new mymarid wasps of the genus Gonatocerus Nees with new records from India

Abstract

Two new mymarid wasps of the genus Gonatocerus Nees belonging to litoralis-group viz., G. solanus sp. nov., and G. lakhimpuriensis sp.nov., are described from the Indian states of Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Gonatocerus litoralis Haliday is documented as new record from India, and distributional records of five other Indian species viz., G. munnarus Mani and Saraswat, G. narayani (Subba Rao and Kaur), G. ramamurthyi Zeya and Anwar, G. tamilanus Mani and Saraswat and G. venustus Zeya) are also provided.

Keywords:

• Key words. Gonatocerus
• litoralis-group
• G. thyrides
• D. munnarus
• distribution records

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Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to Prof Mohammad Hayat, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for his valuable criticism and suggestions. Thanks are due to Prof Iqbal Parwez, Chairman, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for providing research facilities. We are grateful to Dr K Veenakumari, Senior Scientist, NBAIR, Bengaluru for providing specimens of one of the new species described herein. SBZ acknowledges the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, and Dr VV Ramamurthy, National Coordinator, Network Project on Insect Biosystematics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, for the financial assistance. Mr PT Anwar, Research Student is thanked for the digital photographs.