Scientific name
Callitula travancorensis Sureshan, 2002
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae
Diagnosis
Head and mesosoma black with metallic green shine; metasoma yellowish brown; antennae dark brown except scape and pedicel yellow; legs yellowish except extreme apices. Head reticulate; anterior margin of clypeus weakly emarginate; scape reaching above level of vertex; funicular segments longer than wide; terminal stylus of clava short. Pronotal collar carinate; propodeum with plicae not very distinct, reaching up to base of nucha. Forewing with basal cell closed; speculum narrow, almost closed below. Metasoma short and ovate; petiole transverse; T1 reaching more than one third length of gaster.
Image
 Adult - lateral view
Distribution
India: Kerala.
References
- Noyes, J.S. 2014. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
- Sureshan, P.M. 2003. Pteromalinae (Pteromalidae: Chalcidoidea: Hymenoptera) of Indian subcontinent. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 205: iii+170pp.
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