Scientific name
Ischyroptyx Delucchi, 1956
Rarely encountered genus. There is only one described global representative of this genus from Italy - Ischyroptyx ligusticus (Masi, 1922).
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae
Diagnosis
Body colour black with metallic shine. Antennae inserted slightly above centre of face, female with 3 anelli and 5 long funicular segments. Pronotum as broad as mesoscutum, hairs on mesosoma conspicuous; hind tibia with two spurs. Fore wing with marginal vein slightly widened at base, marginal vein about 1.47x stigmal vein. Ovipositor long.
Image
 Adult - lateral view
Distribution
India: Bihar and Delhi.
Biology / Hosts
Not known.
References
- Masi, L. 1922. Le specie del genere Dinarmus (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura, Portici 15: 274.
- 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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