Calliscelio elegans (Perkins)

Chen, Hua-yan, Masner, Lubomir & Johnson, Norman F., 2017, New World species of the genus Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae), ZooKeys 648, pp. 1-136 : 55

Calliscelio elegans (Perkins)

Caloteleia elegans Perkins, 1910: 624 (original description).

Caenoteleia elegans (Perkins): Kieffer 1926: 550 (generic transfer, description).

Calotelea tanugatra Narendran, 1998: 71 (original description, keyed); Rajmohana K. 2006: 122, 123 (description, keyed); Rajmohana, Peter and Narendran 2013: 8 (junior synonym of Calliscelio elegans (Perkins), type information).

Calliscelio elegans (Perkins): Masner, Johnson and Musetti 2009: 61 (description, diagnosis, generic transfer); Rajmohana, Peter and Narendran 2013: 8 (description of male, synonymy).

Description.

See Masner et al. (2009) and Rajmohana et al. (2013).

Diagnosis.

Callliscelio elegans is easily distinguished within Calliscelio based on the combination of the following characters: fore wing with three darkened and two white bands; head and mesosonotum granulose; metascutellum extremely narrow and weakly concave medially to accommodate T1 horn ( Masner et al. 2009).

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=245756]

Material examined.

Non-type material: (61 females) AUSTRALIA: 1 female, OSUC 256856 (CNCI). BELIZE: 4 females, OSUC 256871- 256874 (CNCI). BENIN: 3 females, OSUC 256882- 256884 (CNCI). CHRISTMAS ISLAND: 4 females, OSUC 256857- 256860 (ANIC). FIJI: 2 females, FBA015304, OSUC 256864 (BPBM). FRENCH POLYNESIA: 8 females, OSUC 256861- 256863 (CNCI); OSUC 256866- 256867 (UCDC); UCRC ENT 111562, 135651- 135652 (UCRC). GUAM: 1 female, OSUC 256854 (CNCI). INDIA: 3 females, OSUC 256899- 256901 (CNCI). INDONESIA: 4 females, OSUC 256893- 256896 (CNCI). IVORY COAST: 2 females, OSUC 256885- 256886 (CNCI). MADAGASCAR: 2 females, CASENT 2029779, OSUC 215759 (CAS). MAURITIUS: 1 female, MHNG 0002 (MHNG). MEXICO: 5 females, OSUC 256868- 256870 (CNCI); OSUC 256875 (NMNH); OSUC 583205 (OSUC). NEPAL: 4 females, OSUC 256890- 256892, 256898 (CNCI). NIGERIA: 1 female, OSUC 256881 (CNCI). PUERTO RICO: 2 females, OSUC 256876- 256877 (CNCI). SAMOA: 1 female, OSUC 256865 (BPBM). SRI LANKA: 2 females, OSUC 256902- 256903 (CNCI). THAILAND: 3 females, OSUC 256897, 256907, 321997 (OSUC). UNITED STATES: 3 females, OSUC 256855 (CNCI); OSUC 256878 (NMNH); UCFC 0 079 680 (UCFC). VENEZUELA: 2 females, OSUC 256879- 256880 (CNCI). YEMEN: 3 females, OSUC 256887- 256889 (CNCI).