Scientific name

Callocleonymus indiaensis Gupta & Sureshan

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae

Diagnosis

Female: Length 2.94 mm (Paratype 1, 2.14 mm). Body with strong metallic luster. Head metallic green, ocelli pale white (brown in paratype), eyes grey. Mandibles brown. Antennae with scape, pedicel, annellus, funicular segments fu1-fu5 yellowish brown; fu6 dark brown; fu7 and clava black (in paratype, antennae with scape and pedicel pale brown; anellus and fu1-fu5 brownish yellow, fu6 pale brown, fu7 and clava black). Pronotum metallic green. Mesoscutum and scutellum metallic green with bronze reflection, base of scutellum and inner margins of axillae with bluish reflection; propodeum with metallic blue shine, with two broad violaceous patches in posterior half. Metasoma brownish black with bluish-purple metallic luster basally and laterally, petiole yellow, ovipositor sheath black. Fore and mid coxae brown, hind coxae yellowish brown with metallic green coloration in middle (in paratype, legs including coxae testaceous except femora and tip of tarsi, brown); trochanters and femur yellowish brown; tibia yellowish brown with dark infuscation dorsally (in paratype, mid and hind tibia except tip, white), tarsi paler testaceous with fifth segment brown. Tegulae dark brown. Wings distinctly infuscate, oval patch starting beneath the MV reaching up to PMV, venation brown, setae dark brown.

 Antenna
 Head
 Mesosoma  Metasoma
 Propodeum  Wings

Image

 Female - lateral view

Distribution

Old world.

Hosts

Reared as parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae of the families Buprestidae and Scolytidae (Gibson, 2003).

Biology

Probably occurring in dry grasses infested with beetles.

References

  • Bouèek Z. (1988) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, U.K. 832 pp.
  • Gibson GAP. (2003) Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoir Engomology, International 16: 83.
  • Gupta A, George N and Sureshan P. M (2019). Description of a new species of Callocleonymus Masi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) from India. ENTOMON 44(2): 111-116. https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v44i2.437
  • Gupta A., Rameshkumar A. and Naveen, V. (2015). First record of the genus Callocleonymus Masi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Cleonyminae) from India. Journal of Biological Control 29: 1- 2.
  • Kerrich G.J. (1957) Description of a new species of Callocleonymus Masi, with a note on the genus Notanisus Walker (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Eos 33: 269 - 272.
  • Noyes J.S. (2019) Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. [Accessed on 2019 February]. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids
  • Yang Z.-Q. (1996) Parasitic wasps on bark beetles in China (Hymenoptera). iv + 363 pp. Science Press, Beijing.
  • Yoshimoto C.M. and Ishii T. (1965) Insects of Micronesia: Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae, Encyrtidae (part), Pteromalidae. Insects of Micronesia 19: 109 - 178.

Credits

Images and factsheet prepared by Dr. Ankita Gupta, Scientist, NBAIR. Web content added by Lavanya, 21-09-2019.