Scientific name
Syntomopus carinatus Sureshan & Narendran, 1999
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
Diagnosis
Length 2.0 mm. Head, mesosoma, metasomal petiole and coxae metallic green; metasoma brown with greenish tinge, antennae brown with scape and pedicel testaceous and wings hyaline with brown veins. Legs except coxae testaceous with tips of tarsi brown; tegulae brown. Head finely reticulate, antennal scape not reaching median ocellus. Propodeum with median area finely reticulate, lateral area and nucha almost shiny; median carina complete. Antennae inserted well above lower margin of eyes; scape not reaching median ocellus, funicle segments transverse. Pronotum with collar almost rectangular. Mesosoma with complete notauli. Scutellum flat, finely reticulate. Propodeum with complete median carina, median area finely reticulate, lateral parts and nucha shiny. Prepectus broad, triangular, finely reticulate. Fore wing with basal vein bare, pubescence less distinct.
 Mesosoma
 Metasoma
Image
 Female - lateral view
Distribution
India: Kerala.
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. and Narendran, T.C. 1999. On the Indian sp. of Syntomopus Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea : Pteromalidae) Rec. zool. Surv. India: 97 (Part 4):83-89.
- 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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