Embidobia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) of the Indian region with descriptions of new species

  • Kamalanathan Veenakumari ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bengaluru, India
  • Sreedevi Kolla ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bengaluru, India
  • Satya Nand Sushil ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bengaluru, India
  • Duleep Kumar Samuel Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
  • Farmanur Rahman Khan Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Food, Qassim University, P.O. Box 6622, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
  • Prashanth Mohanraj ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bengaluru, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.970.2749
Keywords: biodiversity, Embioptera, oophagous parasitoids, Oriental, webspinners

Abstract

Embidobia (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) are known to be egg parasitoids of Embioptera. The type species Embidobia urichi was described by Ashmead in 1896. In the last 127 years, eleven species of Embidobia were described worldwide of which two (Embidobia brittanica Girault, 1917 and E. orientalis Dodd, 1939) are from the Oriental region. While the former was described from India, the latter was from Sri Lanka. In this paper we describe 13 new species from India – Embidobia agastya Veenakumari sp. nov., E. barbarika Veenakumari sp. nov., E. dooranetra Veenakumari sp. nov., E. gauriputra Veenakumari sp. nov., E. hiranya Veenakumari sp. nov., E. hrdaya Veenakumari sp. nov., E. jatayu Veenakumari sp. nov., E. mahabali Veenakumari sp. nov., E. omkara Veenakumari sp. nov., E. procera Veenakumari sp. nov., E. sankirna Veenakumari sp. nov., E. saroma Veenakumari sp. nov. and E. yuyutsu Veenakumari sp. nov. The two previously known species, E. orientalis and E. brittanica, are redescribed. A key to the females of all Oriental species is provided along with illustrations.

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Published
2024-11-27
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Veenakumari, K., Kolla, S., Sushil, S. N., Samuel, D. K., Khan, F. R., & Mohanraj, P. (2024). Embidobia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) of the Indian region with descriptions of new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 970(1), 61–101. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.970.2749
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