Review of the Indian species of the genus Eurymeros Bhat (Braconidae: Alysiinae) with some nomenclatural changes
Author
Gupta, Ankita
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India.
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
0000-0002-6495-4853
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6495 - 4853 Corresponding author. drankitagupta 7 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8415 - 8822
drankitagupta7@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-11
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10.11646/zootaxa.5162.5.7
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2.
Euscelinus gibbosus
Sharma 1983
comb. nov.
Euremeros gibbosa
Sharma 1983
, Reichenbachia 21(2): 129.
Type
locality.
India
:
Uttarakhand
:
Dehradun
:
Manduwala
.
Type
repository.
Entomological collections, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (as per original publication however mentioned as ‘unknown’ in
Singh
et al
. 2021
.
Distribution.
India
:
Jharkhand
(Ranchi);
Uttarakhand
(Dehradun); Deccan Peninsula: Chhota Nagpur, Upper Gangetic Plains (
Sharma 1991
;
Singh
et al
. 2021
).
Comments.
The nomenclatural correction to the species epithet is made as it should follow the gender of the generic name. The interpretation of this species is problematical because of lack of illustrations and the far too short description. However, the few figures of
Eurymeros gibbosa
clearly show that this species is not belonging to the genus
Eurymeros
; both wing venation and shape of hind femur and mandible indicate that it also belongs to genus
Euscelinus
Westwood 1882
(subfamily
Doryctinae
). It is synonymized with its rather variable
type
species,
E. sarawacus
Westwood 1882
(
Fig. 4
), since no obvious differences are found (
syn. nov.
).