Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) Author Tortorici, Francesco Author Caleca, Virgilio Author Noort, Simon Van Author Masner, Lubomir text Zootaxa 2016 4178 1 1 59 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.1 2b965791-3303-41ac-bf83-be05c09c78ea 1175-5326 261632 D00D1335-72DF-4D8B-97E1-45642CF38AC8 comitans -group This group includes species without a preoccipital lunula. In the Afrotropical region we recorded two species: Dyscritobaeus . comitans and D. ndokii Tortorici et Caleca sp. nov. Based on an analysis of the description and figures of Dyscritobaeus indicus ( Mukerjee, 1994 ) , in contrast to Mineo et al. (2010) and O’Connor & Ashe (2011), both of whom included this species in the orientalis -group, we consider it as belonging to the comitans -group, because of the clear absence of a preoccipital lunula. This species appears to be morphologically very similar to D. comitans , but unfortunately the holotype was not located in the collection of the Department of Zoology , Government Post-Graduate College , Rishikesh or in ZSI centre of Dehradun , India ( K. Rajmohana , in litteris); the only difference with D. comitans is the absence of a specillum on T2. This feature was only recently observed and described ( Mineo & Caleca 1992 ) and we suspect that, as previously happened for D. orientalis in Dodd’s original description (1915), the specillum was overlooked by the author and T2 was described as striate.