Scientific name
Homoporus gladiatus Sureshan & Narendran, 2000
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae
Diagnosis
Male: Head and mesosoma black; metasoma basally brownish yellow and apically brownish black; head finely reticulate, anterior margin of clypeus with a deep median incision; antennae inserted in the center of face, male antenna with prominent setae. Mesosoma reticulate. Fore wing with post marginal vein shorter than marginal vein, stigmal vein distinctly shorter than post marginal vein. Metasoma elongate, ovate.
Image
 Male - lateral view
Distribution
India: Kerala.
Biology / Hosts
Not known.
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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