taxonID	type	description	language	source
BF6D8781926FFF801468B884BA58F878.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype: ♀ (on a slide), INDIA: Uttarakhand, Nainital, Suyalbari, Dhokaney waterfall, 4. xi. 2021; ex Trioza malloticola (Hemiptera, Triozidae) forming leaf galls on M. philippensis. Paratypes: 7 ♀♀ 6 ♂♂, same data holotype, S. Rawat & S. Kumar, legs.	en	Rawat, Sangeeta, Kumar, Sandeep (2023): Psyllaephagus malloticolae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from India, a parasitoid of leaf gall former, Trioza malloticola (Crawford) (Hemiptera, Triozidae) on Mallotus philippensis. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2): 183-192, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.183, URL: https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.183
BF6D8781926FFF801468B884BA58F878.taxon	description	Description — Female. Body length 2.34 mm (Holotype), Average body length 2.30 mm (n = 08) Head. 1.2 × wider than long in frontal aspect (Fig. 12); ocelli arranged in an acute-angle 44.88 °, posterior ocelli close to eye margins; eyes 1.5 × as long as wide; toruli inserted at the lower margins of eyes; ITD 1.5 × more than TED; TVD 1.9 × more than TMD; scrobes deep, clearly defined, well separated from eye margin; scape (Fig. 13) conspicuously broadened and flattened about 2 × as long as its greatest width, pedicel 1.4 × long as wide, pedicel is smaller than F 1, all funiclulars longer than wide, F 1 the shortest and F 5 the longest, F 1 1.4 × long as wide, F 2 1.6 × as long as wide, F 3 1.8 × as long as wide, F 4 1.8 × as long as wide, F 5 2 × as long as wide, F 6 1.33 × as long as wide, club segmented 2.6 × as long as wide, sub equal in length to 2 preceding funiclulars (F 5 and F 6). Mesosoma. Pronotum (Fig. 14) 3.25 × median width to its median length, single line of setae present on anterior region; Mesoscutum (Figs 15 – 16) 1.22 × as wide as long, Scutellum (Figs 15 – 16) 0.73 × shorter than mesoscutum; Scutellum 0.11 × as long as wide; metanotum narrow; Propodeum (Fig. 16) smooth with median carina and lateral carinae, propodeal spiracles oval, large, exposed and slightly separated from the anterior margin of propodeum. Legs. Fore legs (Fig. 20), coxa 1.46 × as long as wide, 2 × longer than trochanter; femur 3.4 × as long as wide, 1.12 × longer than the length of the tibia, TS 1 sub equal to the length of the tibial spur. Mid legs (Fig. 20), coxa 1.5 × as long as wide, 1.5 × longer than mid trochanter; femur 8 × as long as wide, 0.86 × less than the length of the tibia; tibial spur 1.2 × longer than TS 1 (Fig. 21). Hind legs (Fig. 20), coxa 1.4 × as wide as long, 1.42 × longer than hind trochanter; femur 6.7 × as long as wide, 0.73 × shorter than to the length of tibia in length; TS 1 longer 1.9 × than tibial spur length. Wings. Fore wing (Fig. 22) 2.25 × as long as wide, 1.56 × longer than the length of hind wing; CC 10.8 × as long as wide, narrow, densely setose all over the surface; basal cell open, linea calva closed by one line of setae posteriorly; SMV setose with 18 setae across its length, PMV subequal to SV in length. Hind wing (Fig. 23) 3.2 × as long as wide, the length of the wing 1.5 × than the length of the vein. Metasoma. Metasoma (Fig. 10) slightly longer than the mesosoma (1.06 ×); ovipositor (Fig. 19) 1.6 × as long as mid-tibia; gonostylus about as long as mid-tibial spur; outer plate 1.2 × shorter than the second valvifer; Width of hypopygium at most 2.5 × of its own lateral length (Fig. 18). Colouration and Sculpture. Head (Figs 10 – 11) metallic green, clypeal and genal region metallic green with a golden tinge, lower half of the head reticulately-punctate, punctures large and shallow, thickly setose with silvery white setae (Fig. 11); eyes black; ocelli black; mandible brown with 2 teeth and an upper truncation, maxillary and labial palpi yellow. Antenna: scape blackish brown except the basal and distal end translucent, pedicel and funiclars pale brown; club black. Mesosoma: pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum metallic green with golden tinge (Fig. 15); before KOH treatment, no sculpture seen on head and on mesoscutum except silvery seate on both; after KOH treatment head having small flower like sculptures, where as mesoscutum and scutellum with polygonal reticulation; dorsellum, metanotum and propodeum metallic green with no such tinge (Fig. 17). Legs (Fig. 20): all parts of legs yellow except hind and mid coxa brownish black (Fig. 20), upper 1 / 3 part of mid coxa brownish black and remaining part yellow. Wings (Fig. 22): forewing venation brown, tegula yellow. Metasoma (Fig. 17): gaster black brown; ovipositor sheath yellow; hypopygium reaching more than half of the gaster, tergites with polygonal sculpture. Relative measurement (Length: Width). Head (0.59: 0.68), TED (0.1), ITD (1.5), TMD (0.2), TVD (0.38), Antenna (L: W): scape (0.26: 0.13), pedicel (0.06: 0.05), F 1 (0.07: 0.05), F 2 (0.08: 0.05), F 3 (0.09: 0.05), F 4 (0.09: 0.05), F 5 (0.1: 0.05), F 6 (0.057: 0.05), club (0.18: 0.07), Mesosoma (L) (0.98 mm): pronotum (0.2: 0.65), mesoscutum (0.49: 0.6), scutellum (0.44: 0.4), fore wing (1.98: 0.85), SMV (L) (0.76 mm), MV (0.03 mm), SV (0.14 mm), PV (0.13 mm), Hind wings (1.23: 0.38), venation (L) (0.8 mm), Fore legs: coxa (0.22: 0.15), trochanter (L) (0.11 mm); femur (0.44: 0.13), tibia (L) (0.39 mm), TS 1 (L) (0.13 mm), spur (L) (0.12 mm). Mid legs: coxa (0.25: 0.17), trochanter (L) (0.15 mm); femur (0.64: 0.08), tibia (L) (0.74 mm); mid-tibial spur (L) (0.21 mm), mid-basitarsus (L) (0.17 mm). Hind legs: coxa (0.28: 2), trochanter (L) (0.14 mm), femur (0.47: 0.07), tibia (L) (0.64 mm), TS 1 (L) (0.17 mm), spur length (L) (0.09 mm). Metasoma (L) (1.04 mm): ovipositor (1.2 mm), gonostylus (0.2 mm), second valvifer (0.93 mm), outer plate (0.78 mm), Hypopygium (L: W) (0.31: 0.79). Male (Figs 24 – 33). Body length 1.53 mm (Fig. 24); male generally very similar to female in appearance except for scape (Fig. 28) conspicuously broadened and flattened about twice as long as its greatest width in female and sub-cylindrical in male. Head (Fig. 25) 1.28 × wider than long in frontal aspect; mesoscutum (Fig. 26) 1.15 × as wide as long; scutellum (Fig. 26) markedly shorter than mesoscutum, scutellum 1.08 × as long as wide; propodeum (Fig. 26) 14.25 × as wide as long; forewing (Fig. 32) 2.25 × as wide as long; hindwing (Fig. 33) 2.7 × as wide as long; male genitalia (Fig. 30, 31) phallobase closed, digital sclerites with 2 hooks in it; parameral lobe with 1 seta each side; aedeagus broad at base and narrow at apical region. Relative measurement (Length: Width). head (0.49: 0.63), scutellum (0.37: 0.34), propodeum (0.57: 0.04), fore wing (1.53: 0.68), hind wing (0.95: 0.34).	en	Rawat, Sangeeta, Kumar, Sandeep (2023): Psyllaephagus malloticolae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from India, a parasitoid of leaf gall former, Trioza malloticola (Crawford) (Hemiptera, Triozidae) on Mallotus philippensis. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2): 183-192, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.183, URL: https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.183
BF6D8781926FFF801468B884BA58F878.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Name given after the specific epithet of the host, T. malloticola, a gall making psyllid, associated with Kamala tree, Mallotus philippensis.	en	Rawat, Sangeeta, Kumar, Sandeep (2023): Psyllaephagus malloticolae sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from India, a parasitoid of leaf gall former, Trioza malloticola (Crawford) (Hemiptera, Triozidae) on Mallotus philippensis. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2): 183-192, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.183, URL: https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.183
