A taxonomic study of Methocha Latreille (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Methochinae) from India with description of three new species
Author
Hanima, Raveendran K. P.
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India.
Author
Kumar, P. Girish
0000-0003-2121-0165
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India. & kpgiris @ gmail. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2121 - 0165
Author
Binoy, C.
0000-0003-4309-5460
Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India. binoy _ doz @ uoc. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4309 - 5460 & Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode- 673001, Kerala, Affiliated to University of Calicut.
binoy_doz@uoc.ac.in
Author
Sureshan, P. M.
0000-0003-4722-6368
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India. & pmsuresh 43 @ gmail. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4722 - 6368
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-12
4999
3
258
272
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.5
1175-5326
5119053
FB77698C-87DD-4525-A697-F4026E57266C
1.
Methocha keralaensis
Hanima & Girish Kumar, 2019
(
Figs 1–12
)
Methocha keralaensis
Hanima & Girish Kumar (2019)
: 63 (
♀
,
India
:
Kerala
(ZSIK).
Diagnosis. Female.
Body length
5 mm
.
Bases
of fl
1
–fl
5
brown; ocelli arranged in acute triangle; mesosoma black; head strongly narrowed behind eyes;
POD 1.06
× AOD, 0.47 × OOD; apical margin of clypeal lobe rounded; basal metasomal segments black. Male unknown.
Distribution.
India
:
Kerala
.