Scientific name
Kumarella angulus Sureshan, 1999
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
Diagnosis
Body length 4 mm. Head, mesosoma dark metallic blue; metasoma brown with metallic blue reflections on sides of basal tergites. Antennae with scape and pedicel pale brown, remainder dark brown. Tegulae testaceous; wings hyaline. Antennae toruli above lower margin of eyes; scape reaching median ocellus. F1 longest, F3 and F4 subequal and little shorter than F2; F5 shorter than F4; club little shorter than two preceding segments combined. Propodeum with median area in the form of four depressed areas. Head finely reticulate, mesosoma moderately reticulate. Metasoma sessile, longer than combined length of head and mesosoma.
 Mesosoma
Image
 Female - dorsal & lateral view
Distribution
India: Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Biology / Hosts
Not known.
References
- Noyes, J.S. 2012. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
- Sureshan, P.M. 1999. Two new genera and three new species of Pteromalinae (Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea) from India. Ori. Ins. 33:99-107.
- 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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