Polysphincta idukkiensis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) a rare new species from the southern Western Ghats
Authors/Creators
- 1. Research Scholar, Department of Zoology, Government College Kasaragod, Vidyanagar, Kerala, India
- 2. Assistant Professor in Zoology, Prof. T.C. Narendran Biodiversity Research Lab., The Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
- 3. Department of Molecular Biology, Kannur University, Kerala, India
Description
The members of the genus Polysphincta are koinobiont parasitoids exclusively associated with free living
spiders. The genus is currently represented by three valid species from the Oriental region, viz.,
Polysphincta boops Tschek, 1869, P. longa Kasparyan, 1976 and P. punctigaster Varga & Reshchikov,
2015. In the present paper Polysphincta idukkiensis sp.n., is described from the Pambadum shola forests
of Idukki district, a part of the southern Western Ghats of India. The species is closely related to P. boops
Tschek in having impunctate swelling on metasomal tergites, but it differs from P. boops Tschek in
having shallow close punctures on propodeum, and also on the length of ovipositor sheath. A key to the
Oriental species of Polysphincta Gravenhorst, 1829 is provided.
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