Description of a new species ofDicopusEnock and first report ofPlatystethynium glabrumJin & Li (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India

Taxonomic identification and biological traits ofPlatystethynium triclavatum(Donev & Huber, 2002), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), a newly recorded egg parasitoid of the Italian endemic pestBarbitistes vicetinus(Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

“…In Europe, females of the genus and its nominate subgenus (as Pseudocleruchus) can be identified using a key in Samková, Janšta & Huber (2020), who incorrectly guessed (p. 207, in the key to males of the European genera of Mymaridae), that males of Pseudocleruchus, then unknown, could be macropterous like conspecific females. Recently, three species were transferred from Cleruchus to Platystethynium (Donev & Huber, 2002;Triapitsyn, 2014), so the genus currently contains six described, valid species worldwide including P. triclavatum (Sankararaman, Manickavasagam & Palanivel, 2019;Huber, Read & Triapitsyn, 2020). Among them, three species belong to the subgenus P. (Platypatasson): P. (Platypatasson) fransseni (Ogloblin, 1946) from Indonesia, P. (Platypatasson) terebrator (Ogloblin, 1959) and P. (Platypatasson) vagatus (Ogloblin, 1959) from Argentina.…”

“…Pseudocleruchus is synonymized herein under Platystethynium and its nominate subgenus P. (Platystethynium) because all of their important generic-level morphological features, including the reduced female mandibles, are very similar, and the known host of P. (Platystethynium) onomarchicidum Ogloblin, 1946 is also a bush-cricket, Onomarchus uninotatus (Serville, 1838) (Tettigoniidae) (Ogloblin, 1946). species of the former genus Pseudocleruchus (1 described and 2 undescribed species, which for the time being, until genetic data becomes available, can be grouped in the informal triclavatum species group), have shorter heads, less flattened and shorter bodies, and wider fore wings than the two described Oriental species of the nominate subgenus of Platystethynium, P. (Platystethynium) onomarchicidum, known from Indonesia (Ogloblin, 1946), and P. (Platystethynium) glabrum Jin & Li, 2016, known from China (Jin & Li, 2016) including Taiwan (Triapitsyn, 2018), and also from India (Sankararaman, Manickavasagam & Palanivel, 2019). The latter two nominal species can be grouped in the informal onomarchicidum species group and are possibly synonymous (Triapitsyn, 2018), Key to species groups and described species of the subgenus Platystethynium (Platystethynium Ogloblin, 1946), females Platystethynium (Platystethynium) triclavatum (Donev & Huber, 2002), comb.…”

Description of a new species of Omyomymar Schauff from India with a key to Oriental species and first report of Palaeoneura markhoddlei Triapitsyn (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from the Indian subcontinent

“…Brief diagnosis: Ovipositor about 0.49× as long as gaster, 1.8× of metatibia and originating at the level of gt 4 (Triapitsyn 2018b;Sankararaman et al 2019).…”

“…Distribution: Platystethynium glabrum, India: Meghalaya (Sankararaman et al 2019) and Kerala (new record)…”

“…106, p.161 of Triapitsyn 2018b) and gt 4 in P. glabrum. This was incorrectly quoted as gt 2 in P. onomarchicidum by Jin & Li (2016) and Sankararaman et al (2019). Rehmat & Anis, 2015 Material examined: EDAU/Mym/DR3/2020, two females, 29.xii.2018, Nanjangud, Mysore, Karnataka, India, 12.116N & 76.678E, YPT, finger millet and weed ecosystems, coll.…”