Nomenclature
Callodicopus Ogloblin, 1955: 377. Yoshimoto 1990: 26. Type species: Callodicopus crassula Ogloblin, by original designation.
Decamymar Annecke, 1961: 68. Type species: Decamymar magniclavae Annecke, by original designation. Synonymy by Huber and Lin, 1999.
Diagnosis
Members of Callodicopus (Fig. 1) can be distinguished by the following characters:
- Mandible 2-toothed
- Female funicle 7-segmented, F2 either ring like or not
- Fore wing with posterior margin straight, widening gradually towards apex
- Proximal and distal macrochaeta present and moderately long
- Procoxae widely separated by the broad anterior apex of prosternum
- Tarsi 5-segmented
- Mesophragma extending into gaster
- Propodeal foramen broad, almost touching metacoxal foramen
- Petiole apparently absent
Geographic Distribution
Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and India.
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Hosts and habitat
Not known.
Species in India
Undetermined species, collected from Karnataka (Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar, 2012) (first report from India).
References
Manickavasagam S, Rameshkumar A. 2013. First report of Callodicopus Ogloblin (Mymaridae) from India and new records of some Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Journal of Biological Control, 26 (4): 321-328.
Ogloblin AA. 1955. Los nuevos representantes de la fam. Mymaridae (Hym.) de la Republica Argentina. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agrarian "Filippo Silvestri", 33: 377-397.
Ramesh Kumar et al., 2013