Scientific name
Callitula keralensis Sureshan, 2002
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae
Diagnosis
Female: Head and mesosoma with green metallic lusture. Metasoma non collapsing, longer than mesosoma; dark brown in apical half, basal half with yellow brown colouration in the middle, lateral margins dark brown and metallic green reflection on T1. Antenna slender; clava acuminate with a narrow spicule; scape and pedicel testaceous, remaining brown. Scape exceeding level of vertex. Antenna with pedicel shorter than F1; POL subequal to OOL. Head wider than mesosoma. Pronotum collar without margin, raised in the middle. Propodeum long convex with reticulate sculpture, basal foveae deep. Wings hyaline, fore wing with basal cell open below, speculum broad.
Image
 Female - dorsal view
Distribution
India: Kerala and Karnataka.
Biology / Hosts
Not known.
References
- Gupta, A. & J. Poorani. 2009. Taxonomic studies on a collection of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from India with new distribution records. Journal of threatened taxa 1(5): 300-304.
- Noyes, J.S. 2013. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
- Sureshan, P.M. 2002. Taxonomic studies on Callitula Spinola with the description of four new species from Indian subcontinent (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 100(1/2): 22-25.
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