Cheiloneurus zeyai Anis & Hayat

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Encyrtinae

Female: Length 1.35mm. Head dark brown; frontovertex blackish brown; pronotum brownish; mesoscutum blackish brown, with bluish green and violet luster; axillae and scutellum yellow; metanotum and propodeum pale yellow; mesopleuron white; gaster yellow-brown; T1 with green luster. Scape pale yellow to white, with basal third and dorsal and ventral margins brown; pedicel yellow-brown; F1 and F2 partly brown and partly pale yellow; F3-6 white; clava dark brown; fore wings infuscate; legs including coxae, pale yellow to white, with apices of mid and hind femora lightly infuscate brown. Head in front view nearly as long as broad; all funicle segments longer than broad; fore wing 2.9x as long as broad, width of apical hyaline part 0.07x of infuscate part; gaster longer than mesosoma; ovipositor very slightly exserted, about 0.06x of gaster length.

 Adult - lateral view

India: Delhi, Kerala (Anis and Hayat, 2002).

Unknown.

Factsheet prepared by Dr. A. Rameshkumar, Research associate, NPIB, NBAII.