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Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar 2019
- 1. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India.
- 2. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India. & kpgiris @ gmail. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2121 - 0165
- 3. Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India. binoy _ doz @ uoc. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4309 - 5460 & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode- 673001, Kerala, Affiliated to University of Calicut.
- 4. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India. & pmsuresh 43 @ gmail. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4722 - 6368
Description
1. Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar, 2019
(Figs 1–12)
Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar (2019): 63 (♀, India: Kerala (ZSIK). Diagnosis. Female. Body length 5 mm. Bases of fl 1 –fl 5 brown; ocelli arranged in acute triangle; mesosoma black; head strongly narrowed behind eyes; POD 1.06 × AOD, 0.47 × OOD; apical margin of clypeal lobe rounded; basal metasomal segments black. Male unknown.
Distribution. India: Kerala.
Notes
Published as part of Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, P. Girish, Binoy, C. & Sureshan, P. M., 2021, A taxonomic study of Methocha Latreille (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Methochinae) from India with description of three new species, pp. 258-272 in Zootaxa 4999 (3) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5119053
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSIK, AOD, OOD
- Family
- Tiphiidae
- Genus
- Methocha
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- POD 1.06
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hanima & Girish Kumar
- Species
- keralaensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Methocha keralaensis Hanima, 2019 sec. Hanima, Kumar, Binoy & Sureshan, 2021
References
- Hanima Raveendran, K. P., Girish Kumar, P. and Sureshan, P. M. (2019) A new species of the genus Methocha Latreille (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Methochinae) from India. Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 51 (1), 63 - 67.