 Fig 1. Adult, lateral view |
 Fig 2. Mymar roopum, lateral view |
 Fig 3. Mymar schwanni, lateral view |
 Fig 4. Mymar schwanni, lateral view |
 Fig 5. Mymar taprobanicum, lateral view |
 Fig 6. Antenna |
 Fig 7. Wings |
Ramesh Kumar et al., 2013
Nomenclature
Mymar Curtis, 1829: 112. Type species: Mymar pulchellus Curtis, designated by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1965: 82).
Pterolinononyktera Malac, 1943: 51. Type species: Pterolinonoyktera obenbergeri Malac, by orginial designation. Synonymy by Annecke and Doutt (1961: 26).
Diagnosis
Mymar belongs to the Polynema group of genera and can be distinguished by the following characters.
- Female antennal scape elongate (Fig. 6), longer than width of head and medially constricted, funicle 6-segmented, F2 generally longest, clava entire
- Wings (Fig. 7) characteristic, with fore wing oar shaped and distinctly petiolate consisting of submarginal vein only, and expanded, membranous apex dark brown in apical half beyond venation; hind wing abbreviated, filiform, or poorly developed with only a few marginal cilia.
Geographic Distribution
Cosmopolitan.
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Hosts and habitat
Delphacidae and Cicadellidae (Lin et al., 2007; Noyes, 2013). Mymar taprobanicum recorded in association with thrips (Subba Rao and Hayat, 1983).
Species in India
1. pulchellum Curtis, 1832 (original description); Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar (2012) (report from India); Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy (2001) (world key)
(Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Islands).
2. roopum Hayat & Khan, 2008 (original description); Manickavasagam et al., (2011) (key to Indian species key and distribution) (Distribution: Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh).
3. schwanni Girault, 1912 (original description); Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy (2001) (world species key); Verma (1980) (report from India); Hayat et al., 2008 (distribution); Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar, 2011, Manickavasagam et al., 2011, Rameshkumar et al., 2011 a & b; Rameshkumar et al., 2013 (distribution)
(Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh).
4. taprobanicum Ward, 1875 (original description); Hayat (1977) (report from India); Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy (2001) (world species key); Subba Rao and Hayat (1983) (catalogue); Hayat (1992), Hayat et al., 2008, Rameshkumar et al., 2011 a & b, Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar (2011) (distribution) (Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Karnataka, Kerala, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Pudhucherry, Rajasthan).
References
Girault, A. A. 1912. On the occurrence of a European species of Mymaridae in North America. Canadian Entomologist, 44: 88-89.
Hayat, M. 1977. Mymar taprobanicum Ward, a new record for Rajasthan, India (Hym.: Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae). Newsletter of Zoological Survey of India, 3(5): 283.
Hayat, M., Anis, SB. and Khan, FR. 2008. Descriptions of two new species of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India, with some records. Oriental Insects, 42: 327-333.
Rameshkumar, A., Manickavasagam, S. and 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. and Jebanesan, A. 2011b. New distributional records of fairyflies (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from Pudhucherry, India. Madras Agricultural Journal, 98 (7-9): 279-281.
Triapitsyn, SV and Berezovskiy, VV 2001. Review of the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Primorskii krai: genus Mymar Curtis. Far Eastern Entomologist, 100: 1-20.
Verma, M. 1980. New record of Mymar schwanni Girault from India (Hymenoptera: Chacidoidea: Mymaridae). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 76: 536-537.