Scientific name
Trichomalopsis neelagastra Sureshan & Narendran, 2001
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
Diagnosis
Body length 2.4 mm. Head and mesosoma dark bluish green with bronzy reflection; metasoma dark bluish green; T1 with strong metallic blue-green reflection. Antennal scape as long as eye, reaching level of vertex. Pronotal collar margined throughout; propodeum with median carina weak; nucha convex. Metasoma sessile, ovate, as long as mesosoma, T1 occupying 0.5x length of metasoma.
Images
 Female - dorsal & lateral view
Distribution
India: Kerala and Karnataka.
Biology / Hosts
Not known.
References
- Gupta, A. & J. Poorani. 2009. Taxonomic studies on a collection of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from India with new distribution records. Journal of threatened taxa 1(5): 300-304.
- 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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