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<mods:title>Description Of Two New Species Of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) From Tamil Nadu, India</mods:title>
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Images 6-9. 
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(
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Colour: Head orange except area below toruli yellowish; genae pale brown; radicle, scape and pedicel pale yellow; flagellum uniformly brown. Pronotum yellowish with black tinge; mesoscutum uniformly yellow except a narrow parallel blackish patch at the base; axill and basal half of scutellum yellowish, apical half and border blackish; propodeum yellowish; part of mesopleuron blackish; venter of mesosoma pale yellow. Forewing with a pale but distinct infuscation below distal half of venation. Legs uniformly pale yellow except part of outer coxae blackish. Gaster with 
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1 basally yellow; apex of 
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1 and base of 
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2 pale black, remainder of the
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<paragraph blockId="2.[813,1419,1199,1986]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3644">metasoma yellow; venter of metasoma uniformly pale yellow except brown apex of hypopygium.</paragraph>
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Head: (
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) Almost as broad as high (210:200); frontovertex width 0.75× head width. Antenna (
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) with scape 2.2× as long as broad; pedicel slightly broader than scape (28:25); all funicle segments broader than long with one longitudinal sensilla each; F2 and F3 subequal in length; F1, F4 and F5 equal; F6 larger than F5; clava 3-segmented and longer than preceding four funicle segments combined (83:75); clava with 10 longitudinal sensillae.
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<paragraph blockId="2.[813,1419,1199,1986]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3644">Relative measurements (in microns): Head width, 210; head height, 200; frontovertex width, 150; POL, 80; AOL, 40; OOL, 50; OCL, 10; eye height, 90; malar space, 80; distance between toruli, 46; torulus length, 24; torulus width, 19; length: width of antennal segments - scape length, 60; width, 30; pedicel length, 40; width, 30; length and width of F1, 18: 20; F2, 15: 22; F3, 15: 25; F4, 18: 25; F5, 18: 25; F6, 25: 28; clava length, 83.</paragraph>
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Mesosoma: (
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) Shorter than metasoma (300:410). Pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum with two, two and six pairs of setae respectively. Forewing 2.9× as long as broad (
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); marginal fringe 0.4×
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Images 10-13. 
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[169,640,1173,1193]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">10 - hind wing; 11 - meso and metasoma dorsal view;</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[169,539,1198,1218]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">12 - leg showing mid tibia; 13 - ovipositor.</emphasis>
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wing width; hindwing 8× as long as broad (
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); marginal fringe equal to wing width. Mid tibial spur longer than mid basitarsus (33:25) (
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), but equal to hind basitarsus; hind tibia with dense cilia on the ventral side.
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<paragraph blockId="3.[170,776,1290,1696]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Relative measurements (in microns): pronotum length, 23; mesoscutum length, 130; scutellum length, 113;fore wing length,570;fore wing width,200;marginal fringe length,70; hind wing length, 480; hind wing width, 60; marginal fringe length, 60; mid tibia length, 148; mid tibial spur length, 33; mid basitarsus length, 25; hind tibia length, 163; hind basitarsus length, 33.</paragraph>
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Metasoma: Ovipositor not exserted and 1.26× as long as mid tibia (187:148) (
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) and 5.3× as long as mid tibial spur.
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<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Relative measurements (in microns): metasoma length, 410; ovipositor length, 187.</paragraph>
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: Unknown.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[850,909,447,472]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Host:</emphasis>
Unidentified grass mealybug (
<taxonomicName box="[1293,1414,447,472]" class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Hemiptera</taxonomicName>
:
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" box="[813,1002,481,506]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
<taxonomicName box="[813,993,481,506]" class="Insecta" family="Pseudococcidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pseudococcidae</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[850,1191,516,541]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" box="[850,1191,516,541]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[850,990,516,541]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Distribution:</emphasis>
<collectingCountry box="[996,1054,516,541]" name="India" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">India</collectingCountry>
: 
<collectingRegion box="[1062,1188,516,541]" country="India" name="Tamil Nadu" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Tamil Nadu</collectingRegion>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" box="[850,1417,551,576]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[850,975,551,576]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Etymology:</emphasis>
This new species is named afer the
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" box="[813,1305,585,610]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
Indian state from which 
<typeStatus box="[1074,1133,585,610]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">types</typeStatus>
were collected.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" box="[850,1418,620,645]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[850,969,620,645]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Comments</emphasis>
: This species is closer to 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Foerster" authorityYear="1856" box="[1338,1418,620,644]" class="Insecta" family="Encyrtidae" genus="Rhopus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1338,1418,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">Rhopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[813,1418,239,1130]" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">
<taxonomicName authority="(Shamim &amp; Shafee)" baseAuthorityName="Shamim &amp; Shafee" baseAuthorityYear="1989" box="[813,1148,655,680]" class="Insecta" family="Encyrtidae" genus="Rhopus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aligarhensis">
<emphasis box="[813,942,655,679]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">aligarhensis</emphasis>
(Shamim &amp; Shafee)
</taxonomicName>
and can be differentiated from it based on the following characters:Head as broad as height (1.05×); all funicle segments slightly broader than long; fore wing 2.9× as long as broad with a pale but distinct infuscation below distal half of venation; marginal fringe 0.4× of wing width; hind wing 8× as long as broad; ovipositor length 1.26× as long as mid tibial length [In 
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Shamim &amp; Shafee" baseAuthorityYear="1989" box="[929,1090,897,921]" class="Insecta" family="Encyrtidae" genus="Rhopus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aligarhensis">
<emphasis box="[929,1090,897,921]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="3645">R. aligarhensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, head 1.4× as broad as high; all funicle segments subquadrate; fore wing slightly infuscate, 2.4× as long as broad and marginal fringe 0.12 of wing width; hind wing 4.84× as long as broad; ovipositor length 1.40× as long as mid tibial length. Based upon the redescription given by Noyes &amp; Hayat, 1994.]
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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