Description of four new species of brachypterous Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India
Author
Hayat, Mohammad
Author
Veenakumari, Kamalanathan
text
Zootaxa
2015
3990
2
259
271
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3990.2.6
1b3ab383-fe6c-4193-9b8b-357a15429940
1175-5326
240051
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Genus
Monstranusia
Trjapitzin
The genus
Monstranusia
contains only two species (
Noyes 2015
),
M. antennata
(
Narayanan 1960
)
and
M. mirabilissima
Trjapitzin (1964)
, both macropterous and possibly synonymous (
Noyes & Hayat 1994
). The new species described here is brachypterous, and does not run correctly to genus in the keys dealing with brachypterous forms, but it would key correctly to
Monstranusia
if the specimen was taken through keys as if it had full wings (e.g.
Prinsloo & Annecke 1979
;
Noyes & Hayat 1984
, 1994;
Trjapitzin 1989
;
Hayat 2006
).