Kikiki huna Huber

Rameshkumar, A., Poorani, J. & Anjana, M., 2015, First report of Dicopuslongipes (Subba Rao) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India with new distribution data on some species, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4692-4692 : 4692

Kikiki huna Huber

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 24; sex: females; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; countryCode: IND; stateProvince: Tamil Nadu; municipality: Salem; locality: Yercaud ; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 2014-08-06; habitat: Weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: ICAR-NBAIR

Distribution

Costa Rica, Hawaiian Islands, Trinidad and Tobago ( Huber and Noyes 2013); Argentina ( Triapitsyn 2013); India (Tamil Nadu).

Taxon discussion

Kikiki is unique among Mymaridae in having 4-segmented funicle, 2-segmented clava and 3-segemented tarsi. Only the type species, K. huna Huber (Fig. 12), is known so far. In India, Kikiki was first recorded by Manickavasagam and Palanivel (2013) from Tamil Nadu, but they did not confirm the species identity. The size of K. huna ranges from 150 to 170 µm and it holds the record for being the smallest winged insect known at present ( Huber and Noyes 2013).