Acmopolynema malabaricum Subba Rao 1989

TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Zootaxa 1455 (1), pp. 1-68 : 32-33

Acmopolynema malabaricum Subba Rao 1989

( Figs 37 , 56, 57 )

Acmopolynema malabarica Subba Rao 1989: 153 . Type locality: Periyar Animal Sanctuary , Kerala, India (holotype female [BMNH], not examined).

Acmopolynema malabaricum Subba Rao : Hayat & Anis 1999: 303.

Type material examined Paratype female (on slide, BMNH): INDIA, Kerala, Periyar Animal Sanctuary , 5–15.x.1979, J.S. Noyes .

Diagnosis

Member of the orientale species group. FEMALE. This species is characterized by a long antenna ( Fig. 56 ), the forewing ( Fig. 37 ) with only one (apical) brown spot and a faint infumation in the middle of the blade, short "V"-shaped submedial carinae on the propodeum ( Fig. 57 ), and a long ovipositor which is markedly exserted beyond the gastral apex (by about 1/5 of the total length of the ovipositor).

MALE. Unknown.

Distribution India.

Figures

FIGURES 37–40. Acmopolynema spp. 37. A. malabaricum, forewing (female, paratype). 38–40. A. campylurum (female, China). 38. Antenna. 39. Propodeum. 40. Forewing.

FIGURES 56, 57. Acmopolynema malabaricum (female, paratype). 56. Antenna. 57. Propodeum.