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Fig 1. Adult, dorsolateral view

Fig 2. Adult, lateral view

Fig 3. Adult, lateral view

Fig 4. Adult, lateral view

Fig 5. Female, dorsal view

Fig 6. Wings

Nomenclature

Erythmelus Enock, 1909: 454. Type Species: Erythmelus goochi Enock, by monotypy.
Enaesius Enock, 1909: 456. Type species: Enaesius agilis Enock, by monotypy. Synonymy by Debauche(1948: 192).
Parallelaptera Enock, 1909: 454. Type species: Parallelaptera panis Enock, by monotypy. Synonymy by Schauff (1984: 45).
Erythmelus Viggiani and Jesu, 1985: 487. Type species: Erythmelus lygivorus Viggiani and Jesu, by original designation. Synonymy by Triapitsyn (2003: 5).

Diagnosis

Erythmelus belongs to the Anaphes group of genera and can be identified by the following characters.

Geographic Distribution

Cosmopolitan.


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Hosts and habitat

Tingidae and Miridae (Lin et al., 2007). Erythmelus teleonemiae (Subba Rao) is a parasitoid of the biological control agent, Teleonemia scrupulosa (Tingidae), reducing its efficacy against Lantana camara. Recorded / associated with hosts belonging to Cicadellidae, Miridae, Tingidae, Pamphiliidae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae (Noyes, 2013).

Species in India

Subgenus Erythmelus (Erythmelus)

1. flavovarius (Walker, 1846) (original description); Triapitsyn (2003) (key, distribution and host); Triapitsyn et al., 2007 (key to New world, host, distribution and synonyms list); Subba Rao (1966) (description, as E. empoascae); Manickavasagam et al., 2011 (distribution and key) (Distribution: Delhi, Kerala, Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu)

2. helopeltidis Gahan, 1949 (original description); Subba Rao and Hayat, 1983, 1986 (catalogue) (Distribution: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh).

3. lygivorus Viggiani et Jesu, 1985 (original description); Triapitsyn, 2003 (key, distribution and host); Donev, 2004 (key, distribution and host); Manickavasagam et al., 2011 (key, first report from India) (Distribution: Kerala)

4. nuinu Triapitsyn, 2003 (original description, key, distribution and host); Manickavasagam et al., 2011 (key, report from India) (Distribution: Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu)

Subgenus Erythmelus (Parallelaptera)

1. panis (Enock, 1909) (original description); Subba Rao, (1989) (description as P. panchama, key to species); Triapitsyn, 2003 (key to world species and distribution); Donev (2004), Manickavasagam et al., 2011 (distribution & key) (Distribution: Kerala, Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu)

2. teleonemiae Subba Rao, 1984 (original description); Triapitsyn (2003) (key to world species, distribution & host); Manickavasagam et al., 2011 (distribution & key) (Distribution: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu)

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References

Anwar PT, Zeya SB. 2012. Record of some species of Mymaridae from different states of India (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea). Bionotes, 14 (2): 52-53.

Enock F. 1909. New genera of British Mymaridae (Haliday). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1909: 449-459.

Gahan AB. 1949. A new mymarid parasitic in eggs of Helopeltis cinchonae Maun. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 51: 75-76.

Manickavasagam S, Rameshkumar A, Rajmohana K. 2011. First report of four species of fairyflies from India, key to Indian species of four genera and additional distributional records of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Madras Agricultural Journal, 98 (10-12): 393-408.

Rameshkumar A, Manickavasagam S, Jebanesan A. 2011a. Diversity and new distributional records of fairyflies (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from the state of Kerala, India. Plant Archives, 11(2): 769-774.

Rameshkumar A, Manickavasagam S, Jebanesan A. 2011b. New distributional records of fairyflies (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from Pudhucherry, India. Madras Agricultural Journal, 98 (7-9): 279-281.

Subba Rao BR. 1984. Descriptions of new species of Oriental Mymaridae and Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science (Animal Science), 93: 151-262.

Triapitsyn SV. 2003. Review of the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Primorskii Krai: genera Erythmelus Enock, with taxonomic notes on some extralimital species. Far Eastern Entomologist, 126: 1-44.

Viggiani G, Jesu R. 1985. Due nuove specie palaertiche de genere Erythmelus Enock (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae). Redia, 68: 485-491.

Walker F. 1846. Descriptions of the Mymaridae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18: 49-54.

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