Studies on Indian Mymaridae III (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).

Abstract

The present paper is the third of the series on Indian Mymaridae. In this paper the Genus Lymaenon Haliday, Polynema Haliday, Maidliella Soyka and Stephanodes Enock: have been dealt with. Key to Indian species of Lymaenon has been given and three new species under the genus have been described. The generic status of the Polynema group of insects have been thoroughly discussed, and it is proposed that while Polynema will retain its generic status the other two genera, i.e. Stephanodes and Maidliella should only have the status of subgenera. Two new species under the subgenus Polynema and one species under the subgenus Stephanodes have been described as new to science.

Nomenclatural Acts

delhiensis Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Lymaenon), spec. n.
nigroides Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Lymaenon), spec. n.
tarae Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Lymaenon), spec. n.
indica Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Polynema (Polynema)), spec. n.
thornypoda Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Polynema (Polynema)), spec. n.
truncata Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Polynema (Polynema)), spec. n.
imbricatus Narayanan & Subba Rao, 1961 (Polynema (Stephanodes)), spec. n.