Euscelinus namkumensis ( Sharma & Naqvi 1993 ) Gupta & Achterberg, 2022

Gupta, Ankita & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2022, Review of the Indian species of the genus Eurymeros Bhat (Braconidae: Alysiinae) with some nomenclatural changes, Zootaxa 5162 (5), pp. 576-582 : 580

4. Euscelinus namkumensis ( Sharma & Naqvi 1993) comb. nov.

Euremeros namkumense Sharma & Naqvi 1993, J. Adv. Zool. 14(1): 65.

Type locality. India: Jharkhand: Ranchi: Namkum .

Type repository. Unknown (also mentioned as ‘unknown’ in Singh et al. 2021).

Distribution. India: Jharkhand.

Comments. Euscelinus namkumensis comb. nov. has the malar space equal to basal width of mandible, and also varies in wing venation. Based on the original publication the species is reared from “Lac Stick, parasitic on Eublemma amabilis ” however this host information is probably wrong. The host should be a coleopterous larva associated with the host plant of the lac insect. The correction to the species epithet is made as it follows the gender of the generic name. It is synonymized with E. sarawacus Westwood 1882 ( Fig. 4 ), since no obvious differences are found (syn. nov.).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Euscelinus sarawacus Westwood, male, India. A. Habitus in lateral aspect; B. Head in frontal aspect; C. Wings; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma in lateral aspect; F. Head and mesosoma in dorsal aspect; G. Propodeum and metasoma in dorsolateral aspect.