Additions to the Encyrtidae and Mymaridae (Chalcidoidea) of India with new distribution and host records for some species Author Rameshkumar, A. Author Poorani, J. Author V, Naveen text Biodiversity Data Journal 2015 3 5216 5216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5216 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5216 1314-2828-3-5216 Paraphaenodiscus monawari Bhuiya, 1998 Paraphaenodiscus monawari Bhuiya 1998 : 272.- Hayat 2006 : 161. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sunil Joshi ; individualCount: 3 and 1 ; sex: females and male ; lifeStage: Adult ; Location: continent: Asia; country: India ; stateProvince: Karnataka; municipality: Bangalore; locality: Hebbal ; verbatimElevation: 920m; verbatimCoordinates: N13°13' E77°00' ; Identification: identifiedBy: J Poorani; Event: samplingProtocol: Host rearing ; eventDate: 26-11-2014 ; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultrual Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR Diagnosis Female (Fig. 9a) robust in outline. Head orange with greenish eyes. Mesosoma reddish brown, scutellum slightly darker and medially infuscate. Legs yellowish-orange except tarsal apices darker. Antenna with scape flattened and expanded beneath, black; F1-4 brown, F5 and F6 white, clava dark brown to black. Frontovertex less than one-fifth of head width. Fore wing infuscate. Male (Fig. 9b) with dark metallic green head, mesosoma yellowish-orange, metasoma blackish except lateral sides yellowish, legs pale yellow. Distribution India: Assam ( Hayat 2006 ); new to southern India (Karnataka). Biology Reared from Pulvinaria polygonata Cockerell ( Sternorrhyncha : Coccidae ) (new host). Known hosts include Pulvinaria psidii Maskell on guava and undetermined coccids on lemon ( Bhuiya 1998 ).