First report of Dicopuslongipes (Subba Rao) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India with new distribution data on some species
Author
Rameshkumar, A.
Author
Poorani, J.
Author
Anjana, M.
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2015
3
4692
4692
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4692
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4692
1314-2828--4692
Kikiki huna Huber
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
A Rameshkumar
; individualCount:
24
; sex:
females
; lifeStage:
Adult
; Location: continent: Asia; country:
India
; countryCode: IND; stateProvince: Tamil Nadu; municipality: Salem; locality:
Yercaud
; Identification: identifiedBy:
A Rameshkumar
; Event: samplingProtocol:
Yellow pan trap
; eventDate:
2014-08-06
; habitat: Weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode:
ICAR-NBAIR
Distribution
Costa Rica, Hawaiian Islands, Trinidad and Tobago (
Huber and Noyes 2013
); Argentina (
Triapitsyn 2013
); India (Tamil Nadu).
Taxon discussion
Kikiki
is unique among
Mymaridae
in having 4-segmented funicle, 2-segmented clava and 3-segemented tarsi. Only the type species,
K. huna
Huber (Fig. 12), is known so far. In India,
Kikiki
was first recorded by
Manickavasagam and Palanivel (2013)
from Tamil Nadu, but they did not confirm the species identity. The size of
K. huna
ranges from 150 to 170
µm
and it holds the record for being the smallest winged insect known at present (
Huber and Noyes 2013
).