Chalcididae
Creators: name: Gawas, Sandesh M.
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chalcididae

description: Key to genera of Chalcididae of Goa, India
1. Hind tibia obliquely truncated at the apex and with one spur (Figure 53).................. 2
– Hind tibia perpendicularly truncated at the apex and with two spurs (Figure 54) ... 5
2. Head with two projecting horns (Figure 58) ............................................................................. 3
– Head without projecting horns (Figure 59)................................................................................ 4
3. Head below the apex of each horn without distinct additional teeth in lateral view (Figure 82); scutellum with median impuctate strip (Figure 86).... .... Dirhinus Dalman
– Head below the apex of each horn with distinct additional teeth in lateral view (Figure 83); scutellum without median impuctate strip (Figure 87)...................................... .............................................................................................................................. Eniacomorpha Girault
4. Gaster with long slender petiole; petiole with longitudinal carinae (Figures 34, 36).... ................................................................................................................................... Epitranus Fabricius
– Gaster sessile without distinct petiole (Figures 20, 22, 24, 26, 28)......................................... ............................................................................................................................. Brachymeria Cameron
5. Fore wing with marginal vein removed from wing margin; post-marginal vein absent, stigmal vein short (Figure 60).......................................................................................................... 6
– Fore wing with marginal vein at wing margin; post-marginal vein present; stigmal vein well developed (Figure 61) ..................................................................................................... 7
6. Clava with oblique segmentation (Figure 62)...................... Indoinvreia Roy and Farooqi
– Clava with normal segmentation (Figure 63)..................... ..................... Psilochalcis Kieffer
7. Scutellum greatly bulging in lateral view (Figure 52)........................................ Uga Girault
– Scutellum normal in lateral view (Figure 46)............................................................................. 8
8. Hind tibia with an additional carina externally (Figure 55) ................................................. 9
– Hind tibia without additional carina externally (Figure 54).............................................. 10
9. Hind femur on ventral margin with a prominent dent followed by a comb of teeth (Figure 56).................................................................................................................. Neochalcis Kirby
– Hind femur on ventral margin without a prominent dent (Figure 55)................................ .................................................................................................................................... Haltichella Spinola
10. Frons with preorbital carina, behind anterior ocellus to inner margin of eyes; scrobe deep (Figure 64)................................................................................................................................. 11
– Frons without preorbital carinae; scrobe shallow (Figure 65)....... ....... Hockeria Walker
11. Hind femur either uni- or bilobed (Figure 54); transverse carina distinct........................... ................................................................................................................................. Antrocephalus Kirby
– Hind femur trilobed (Figure 57); transverse carina indistinct or developed laterally..... ................................................................................................................ Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre
Taxonomic account of Chalcididae of Goa, India
Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883
Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883: 54, 63. Type species: Halticella fascicornis Walker; designated by Kirby (1883)
Coelochalcis Cameron, 1904: 110. Type species: Coelochalcis carinifrons Cameron, by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Narendran (1986))
Dilla Strand, 1911: 210. Type species: Antrocephalus rufipes Kieffer, by original designation (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Steffan (1953))
Stomatoceroides Girault, 1913b: 140. Type species: Stomatoceroides bicolour Girault, by original designation. (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988 b))
Metarretocera Girault, 1927: 325. Type species: Metarretocera bursi Girault, by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988 b))
Tainania Masi, 1929: 159. Type species Tainania acutiventris Masi, by original designation (synonymised by Narendran, 1977 with Antrocephalus)
Sabatiella Masi, 1929c: 167–168. Type species: Sabatiella nigra Masi, by original designation (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Habu (1960))
Stomatocerella Girault, 1930: [4]. Type species: Stomatocerella anna Girault, by monotypy (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988 b))
Uxa Girault, 1930: 4. Type species Stomatoceroides clariscapus Dodd, by original designation [synonymised with Antrocephalus by Bouček (1988 b)]
Dillisca Ghesquière, 1946: 367. Replacement name for Dilla Strand considered to be preoccupied by Dila Fisher de Waldheim (synonymised with Antrocephalus by Steffan (1953))
description: Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, pp. 342-381 in Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12) on pages 344-345, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2315671, http://zenodo.org/record/11059701