Trimorus (Lochana)
Creators: name: Veenakumari, Kamalanathan
name: Keloth, Rajmohana
name: Sreedevi, Kolla
name: Kumar, P. Girish
name: Mohanraj, Prashanth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Platygastridae
Trimorus

description: Key to females of Trimorus (Lochana)
1. Medial mesoscutellar spine short, at most 0.2× the length of medial metascutellar spine (Figure 8c); striae on T3 elongate and extend 0.9× the length of the tergite; T3 sublaterally with longitudinal costae (Figure 8a); gena with longitudinal carinae (Figure 8c)................ ................ T. (L.) spinostriatus (Rajmohana and Narendran, 1997)
- Medial mesoscutellar spine elongate, at least 0.6× the length of medial metascutellar spine (Figures 1b, 4b); striae on T3 short, extending at most 0.7× length of tergite; T3 sublaterally smooth with setae (Figures 1a, 4a); gena setigerous punctate (Figures 1d, 5c) .................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Entire mesoscutum setigerous punctate except for imbricate sculpture posteromedially (Figure 4a); femoral depression with narrow depressions between transverse carinae; foveae on anterior margin of mesopleural carina small; mesopleural carina with a row of foveae on posterior margin; paracoxal sulcus and ventral metapleural sulcus foveate without strong transverse carinae between them, instead a smooth area present (Figure 5c); lateral patch on T3 sparse (Figure 4a) .......................................... ......................................................................................................................... T. (L.) satyaki sp. nov.
- Entire mesoscutum setigerous punctate (Figure 1a); femoral depression with wide depressions between transverse carinae; foveae on anterior margin of mesopleural carina large; mesopleural carina with no foveae on posterior margin; paracoxal sulcus and ventral metapleural sulcus foveate with strong transverse carinae between them (Figure 1d); lateral patch on T3 dense (Figure 1a)....................................... ............................................................................................................................ T. (L.) karna sp. nov.
Key to males of Trimorus (Lochana)
1. Medial mesoscutellar spine short, at most 0.1× the length of medial metascutellar spine (Figure 7b); gena with longitudinal carinae (Figure 7b); T3 entirely smooth with setigerous punctae except for irregular longitudinal costae submedially (Figure 7e); setae on antennomeres short and dense (Figure 7c)....................................... ................................................ T. (L.) scutellospinosus (Rajmohana and Narendran, 1997)
- Medial mesoscutellar spine elongate, at least 0.6× the length of medial metascutellar spine (Figures 3b, 6b, 9d); gena with setigerous punctae (Figures 3b, 6b); T3 entirely with either weak or strong longitudinal striae except for setigerous punctae laterally (Figures 3a, 6a, 9f); setae on antennomeres long and sparse (Figures 3c, 6c)........... 2
2. Paracoxal sulcus and ventral metapleural sulcus foveate without strong transverse carinae between them (Figure 5c); setae on vertex sparse; setal lateral patch on T3 sparse (Figure 6a); basal foveae on T2 elongate; lateral propodeal area wide and lateral propodeal carina not distinct (Figure 6a)........................ T. (L.) satyaki sp. nov.
- Paracoxal sulcus and ventral metapleural sulcus foveate with strong transverse carinae between them (Figures 1d, 9e); setae on vertex dense (Figures 3a, 9a); setal lateral patch on T3 dense (Figures 3a, 9f); basal foveae on T2 short; lateral propodeal area narrow and lateral propodeal carina distinct (Figures 3a, 9a)................................ 3
3. Head>1.2× as long as wide; IOS at least 0.7× head width; inner orbits almost parallel (Figure 9b); epomial carina angular (Figure 9c); lateral mesoscutum and mesoscutellum densely setose (Figure 9a) ..................................................................................................... ................................................................ T. (L.) ferrari (Veenakumari and Rajmohana, 2013)
- Head subequal in length and width; IOS at most 0.5× head width; inner orbits converging dorsally (Figure 2b); epomial carina sinuous (Figure 1d); lateral mesoscutum and mesoscutellum sparsely setose (Figure 3a) ............ T. (L.) karna sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Veenakumari, Kamalanathan, Keloth, Rajmohana, Sreedevi, Kolla, Kumar, P. Girish & Mohanraj, Prashanth, 2022, Replacement name for the homonym of subgenus Trimorus (Neotrimorus) (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) with description of two new species from India, pp. 1709-1725 in Journal of Natural History 56 (41 - 44) on pages 1722-1724, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2134060, http://zenodo.org/record/7380574