Nomenclature

Narayanella, Subba Rao and Hayat, 1983: 20: 138. Contr. Amer. Ent. Inst.
Narayanella, Subba Rao, 1976: 10 (3): 352. Oriental Insects.
Narayana, Subba Rao, 1976: 10 (1): 87. Oriental Insects (preoccupied in Distant, 1908).

Diagnosis

Narayanella belongs to the Polynema group of genera and possesses the following combination of characters.

Female antennal (Figs. 4, 5) scape short, almost quadrate, funicle 5-segmented, last funicle segment dilated, clava 2-segmented
Fore wing (Fig. 6) with discal setae arranged in curved and alternating strong and weaker rows
Hind leg with very long spine or needle like setae (Figs. 1-3), hind coxa longer than petiole or mid femur, tarsi 4-segmented
Gaster short, ovipositor very slightly exserted.

Geographic Distribution

Oriental.

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Hosts and habitat

Not known.

Species in India

1. pilipes (Subba Rao) (1976a) (original description); Subba Rao (1976b) (new name) (Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal)

2. thornypoda (Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961) (original description); Mani and Saraswat (1973) (description as Anagrus khandalus); Manickavasagam and Rameshkumar, 2011 (distribution) (Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh)

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References

Hayat M. 1992. Records of some Mymaridae from India, with notes (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Hexapoda, 4: 83-89.

Manickavasagam S, Rameshkumar A. 2011. First report of three genera of Fairyflies (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India with description of a new species of Dicopus and some other records. Zootaxa, 3094: 63-68.

Narayanan ES, Subba Rao BR. 1961. Studies on Indian Mymaridae III. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 11: 655-671.

Subba Rao BR. 1976. Narayana, gen. nov. from Burma and some synonyms (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae). Oriental Insects, 10: 87-91.