Scientific name
Paracarotomus cephalotes Ashmead, 1894
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
Diagnosis
Body length 4mm. Body black; metasoma brownish black; coxae concolorous with mesosoma, rest of legs brown; antennae brownish black; wings hyaline. Head reticulate punctate; POL as long as OOL; antennae inserted above lower margin of eyes; scape hardly reaching median ocellus; anterior margin of clypeus produced, shallowly emarginate. Pronotal collar carinate; notauli broadly groove like, complete. Fore wing with costal cell completely hairy. Metasoma petiole reticulate.
 Mesosoma
 Metasoma
Image
 Female - lateral view
Distribution
India: Karnataka and Kerala.
Biology / Hosts
Parasite of Syrphid puparia especially of Paragus sp. (Sureshan, 2003).
References
- Noyes, J.S. 2012. 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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