Revision of Indian species of Caenohomalopoda Tachikawa (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) Author Fatima, Farha 0000-0001-9660-3647 Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India. & farhafatimasyed @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9660 - 3647 farhafatimasyed@gmail.com Author Zeya, Shahid Bin Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-04 5133 2 247 269 journal article 55679 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.2.6 37cc290a-a0f9-4172-9801-eb36b62f2c11 1175-5326 6524428 A27330F3-0BBC-45A9-8749-AB83D2E49645 1. Caenohomalopoda albifuniculata Hayat ( Figs 1, 2 ) Caenohomalopoda albifuniculata Hayat , in Hayat & Veenakumari, 2014: 2–3 , female. Holotype , female, India , Karnataka , Nandi Hills (NBAIR), only fore wing and antenna on slide examined; remainder of body on card not examined. Redescription Female. Length, 2.0 mm. Body dark brown to black; head with bluish shine, face above with a violet cross-band; inter-torular area up to mouth margin purple; malar space bluish in upper half, violet in lower half. Antenna with scape and pedicel dark brown; F1–4 yellow, F1 with slightly pale brown infuscation basally (in cleared and slidemounted antenna, F1–4 appear white); clava with first and third segments pale brown, second segment brownish yellow. Mesosoma with pronotum with bluish shine; mesoscutum purple, anteriorly and laterally with some greenish shine, but in some lights appears largely greenish blue; axillae dull bronzy with bluish green shine; scutellum mainly purple, with sides and apex bluish; tegula dark brown; metanotum and propodeum black; prepectus purple, posteriorly white; mesopleuron dark brown. Fore wing with hyaline and infuscated areas as in Fig. 2 . Hind wing hyaline. Fore leg: coxa dark brown in basal half, white in apical half; trochanter white; femur yellow with a pale brown streak along ventral margin; tibia yellow with a narrow brown streak along ventral margin, tarsus brownish yellow. Mid leg: coxa dark brown; trochanter brownish yellow; femur brownish yellow with a dark brown streak along ventral margin (one-third the width of femur); tibia white with a brown streak in basal half of ventral margin; spur and tarsal segments 1–4 white, 5th segment pale brown. Hind leg: coxa nearly black; trochanter pale brown, femur black except base narrowly pale brown; tibia black except white apical fifth; tarsal segments 1–4 white, 5th brown. Gaster with T1 bluish, other tergites dark brown with at most dark violet shine; exserted part of ovipositor sheath dark brown. Head. Frontovertex width 0.3× head width; posterior ocellus very close to eye margin; POL slightly less than OCL (7.5:8); frontovertex with raised reticulate sculpture, setae small and silvery white, those on upper part of occiput brown [The pair of long, scale-like setae at vertexo-occipital margin lost]. Antenna ( Fig. 1 ) with scape 4.15× as long as broad; pedicel longer than F1; F1–3 each slightly longer than broad, F4 quadrate; clava shorter than funicle. Mesosoma with pronotum triangular, nearly as long as mesoscutum, and 2× as broad as long; mesoscutum 2× as broad as long; scutellum 1.35× as broad as long; pronotum with slightly raised, irregular reticulations; mesoscutum with shallow reticulations; scutellum with raised reticulations, the cells very small, with sides and apex smooth [Scutellum with the sub-apical pair of long, scale-like setae lost.]; setae sparse, silvery white. Fore wing 2.75× as long as broad; width of ray II broader than width of hyaline window between ray II and ray III; rays III and IV not distinctly separated by a hyaline window, but appear as a single large apical infuscation; ray V as broad as ray II ( Fig. 2 ). FIGURES 1, 2. Caenohomalopoda albifuniculata Hayat , holotype, female. 1, antenna; 2, fore wing. Metasoma 1.76× as long as mesosoma and 1.3× as long as head and mesosoma combined; TVII elongate, pointed apically; exserted part of ovipositor about one-seventh gaster length (13:90). Male . Unknown. Type material examined (NBAIR). Holotype parts (one antenna and one fore wing, on slide No. EH.1575). (NBAIR, registration No. ICAR/NBAII/EN25). Host. Unknown. Distribution. India : Karnataka . Comments. The above redescription is largely based on the original description and figures given by Hayat & Veenakumari (2014) , and study of the slide-mounted antenna and fore wing of the holotype . The only character in which this species is similar to C. shikokuensis ( Tachikawa, 1956 ) and C. sudhiri is in having the fore wing clearly less than 3× as long as broad and apically broadly rounded. Otherwise, C. albifuniculata differs from both species by the characters given in the key.