Description of a new species of the genus Litus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from India

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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.1934.8.3.8615-8617

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Assam, India, Litus assamesnsis sp. nov., Mymaridae, new species.

Abstract

A new species of the genus Litus Haliday (Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae), Litus assamensis sp. nov., is described from Assam, India.  A key to the Indian species of the genus is also given.

 

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Haliday, A.H. (1833). An easy on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Britain, which corresponds with the Ichneumons minuti of Linnaeus. Entomological Magazine 1: 259−276, 333−350.

Noyes, J.S. (2015). Universal Chalcidoidea Database, World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/ index.html (accessed on 15 March 2015).

Rehmat, T., S.B. Anis & M. Hayat (2009). Record of the Genus Litus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from India, with description of two species. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 370–374; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o2199.370-4

Triapitsyn, S.V. & V.V. Berezovskiy (2004). Review of the genus Litus Haliday, 1833 in the Holarctic and Oriental regions, with notes on the Palaearctic species of Arescon Walker, 1846 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae). Far Eastern Entomologist 141: 1–24.

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26-03-2016

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Vol. 8 No. 3 (2016)

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