Amiseginae

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 91

Indian Amiseginae and Loboscelidiinae

At present, only one species of the subfamily Amiseginae , Indothrix longicornis Krombein, 1957 , is recorded from India. Nevertheless, the occurrence of Amiseginae for India is largely underrated. The diversity of this subfamily was studied by Krombein (1980, 1983) in Sri Lanka, where he found 10 Amiseginae genera and 20 species, namely: Atoposega rieki ( Krombein, 1957) ; Baeosega humida Krombein, 1983 ; Baeosega laticeps Krombein, 1983 ; Baeosega torrida Krombein, 1983 ; Cladobethylus aridulus Krombein, 1980 ; Cladobethylus ceylonicus Krombein, 1980 ; Imasega rufithorax Krombein, 1983 ; Indothrix wijesinhei Krombein, 1983 ; Isegama aridula ( Krombein, 1980) ; Isegama meaculpa Krombein, 1983 ; Mahinda saltator Krombein 1983; Perissosega venablei Krombein, 1983 ; Saltasega bella Krombein, 1983 ; Saltasega distorta Krombein 1983 ; Serendibula deraniyagalai Krombein, 1980 ; Serendibula gracilis Krombein, 1983 ; Serendibula insolita Krombein, 1983 ; Serendibula karunaratnei Krombein, 1983 ; Serendibula kasyapai Krombein, 1983 ; Serendibula paradoxa Krombein, 1983 . Some of these species, and likely some still undescribed ones, should be distributed in India too.

The occurrence of Lobosceliidinae in the country is also underestimated. Currently only two species are known: Loboscelidia incompleta Kimsey, 2012 and Loboscelidia indica Kimsey, 1988 . Another two species are distributed in Sri Lanka: Loboscelidia atra Krombein, 1983 and Loboscelidia castanea Krombein, 1983 . More than forty species of Lobosceliidinae are known in the Oriental region ( Kimsey 2012) and therefore other species of Loboscelidia are expected for India as well. Although nothing is known about their biology, they were considered as egg parasitoids of walking stick insects (Phasmatodea), and their peculiar structural modifications imply a myrmecophilous behaviour ( Krombein 1983; Kimsey 2012). It was recently supposed that also members of Rhadinoscelidia Kimsey, 1988 , the second known genus of Loboscelidiinae , may be myrmecophilous ( Hisasue & Mita 2020). This unusual behaviour in Chrysididae could explain why Loboscelidia and Rhadinoscelidia have rarely been collected so far.