Fig 1. Adult, lateral view

Nomenclature

Australomymar Girault, 1929: 343. Type species: Australomymar aurigerum Girault, by monotypy.
Nesetaerus Doutt, 1955: 12. Type species: Nesetaerus gressitti Doutt, by monotypy. Synonymy by Lin et al., 2007.

Diagnosis

Australomymar (Fig. 1) belongs to the Australomymar group of genera. The diagnostic characters are as follows:

Antenna with clava entire
Fore wing with a diagonal fold and line of microtrichia (rarely both absent) extending from apex of stigmal vein to posterior wing margin
Ovipositor usually strongly exserted, ovipositor sheaths bearing at least a few setae along exserted portion.
Male antenna with 11-segmented flagellum

Geographic Distribution

Australian, Oriental, and Neotropical regions (Lin et al., 2008).

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Hosts and habitat

Not known.

Species in India

formosum Narendran & Hayat, 2003 (original description) (Distribution: Karnataka)

References

Narendran, TC, Hayat, M. and Sinu, PA. 2003. A new species and a new record of the genus Australomymar Girault (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from the Oriental region. Zoos' Print Journal, 18 (4): 1059-1060.

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