2. Platygaster narendrani Ushakumari (Figure 3D)

Platygaster narendrani Ushakumari, 2004: 574, 590. Original description, keyed.

Diagnosis: Body length 1.32 mm. Black. Frons and vertex finely reticulate. Pedicel twice as long as wide; Mesoscutum as long as wide, notauli present, lateral pronotum finely reticulate; scutellum semicircular T 1 transverse with strong longitudinal ridges. T 2 striate laterally in less than basal half.

Distribution: INDIA: Kerala, Thrissur; INDIA: Kerala, Mathikettan shola, Idukki; INDIA: Kerala, Churulipetti: Chinnar: Idukki; INDIA: Kerala, Chimmony Dam: Thrissur; INDIA: Kerala, University of Calicut (Malappuram); INDIA: Kerala, Vettichira (Malappuram) (Ushakumari and Narendran, 2004)

Host: Cecidomyiid stem galls of (Sponge gourd) Luffa cylindrica (L.) M. Roem of Cucurbitaceae family (Figure 3E). This is the first report of the host of P. narendrani .

Specimen studied: 1 f. INDIA: Kerala, Vettichira, Malappuram; host: reared from stem galls of Lufa cylindrica (L.) M. Roem 14.x.2012; Coll. UKA Saleem; on card, Reg. No.ZSI/ WGRS /IR.INV.6213.