Diversinervus cervantesi Girault
Creators: name: Hayat, Mohammad
name: Zeya, Shahid Bin
name: Veenakumari, K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Diversinervus
Diversinervus cervantesi

description: Diversinervus cervantesi (Girault)
Material examined. INDIA: KARNATAKA: Bengaluru, Kengeri, 1 female, 11.ix.2012 (YPT), 3 females, 4.x.2012 (YPT), Coll. K. Veenakumari; Bengaluru, Attur, 1 female, 29.ix.2012 (YPT), 1 female, 8.x.2012 (PFT), 3 females, 28.i.2013 (YPT), 1 female, 14.ii.2013 (YPT), Coll. K. Veenakumari. (8 females, NBAII; 2 females, ZDAMU)
INDIA: KARNATAKA: Mandya, Pandavpura, 1 female, 4.i.2012, Coll. FR Khan. (ZDAMU) Comments. This is a well-known species, redescribed and illustrated by Rosen & Alon (1983). It was described from Australia, and later recorded from Malaysia, Samoa, Israel, and India (Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Hayat 2006). It is here recorded for the first time from Karnataka State.
Globulencyrtus Hoffer (Figs 19–27)
Globulencyrtus Hoffer, 1975: 91. Type species Semen politum Hoffer, 1957, by monotypy and original designation.
A diagnosis of Globulencyrtus is given below based on the original description by Hoffer (1975), the description of an Australian species by Simutnik & Trjapitzin (2008) and the two Indian specimens.
Female. Body convex, short, compact. Head sublenticular; occipital margin sharp; frontovertex broad, at least 0.4× head width; ocelli small and arranged in an obtuse-angled triangle; antennal torulus in line with or slightly below lower margin of eye, and separated from mouth margin by at least 2× torulus height. Mandible with two teeth and a dorsal truncation. Antennal formula, 1163; scape cylindrical and elongate; dimensions of funicle segments variable, slightly broader than long to longer than broad; clava 3-segmented and shorter than funicle.
Mesosoma. Pronotum and at least anterior part of mesoscutum hidden by posterior part of head; pronotum shorter than mesoscutum; mesoscutum with posterior margin truncate (straight); scutellum with both posterior and anterior margins truncate; axilla small and elongated; tegula large; metanotum and propodeum not visible in cardmounted specimens, but in a specimen dissected and mounted on slide, metanotum appears as a very narrow strip and propodeum also as a narrow strip except laterally expanded with spiracles visible (Fig. 25). Fore wing rudiments sclerotized or membranous, subtriangular, posteriorly reaching to about apex of scutellum and the two wing rudiments widely separated posteriorly; hind wing not detected. Legs with fore and hind femora robust; tarsal formula, 5–5–5.
Metasoma. TI of gaster 3–4× as broad as long and longer than TII–TVI individually; TII–TVI narrow strips; median length of TVII slightly shorter to distinctly longer than length of TI; hypopygium extending nearly to apex of gaster (Fig. 19); ovipositor with third vulvulae free (Fig. 27).
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Coineau & Davis (1999, not seen, but noted from Simutnik & Trjapitzin 2008) recorded G. politus (Hoffer) as a parasitoid of the predatory mite, Microcaeculus steineri delamarei Coineau (Acarina: Caeculidae). Hosts are unknown for the type material of G. politus, G. dahmsi Simutnik & Trjapitzin, and the Indian specimens.
Distribution. The type species is known from the Palaearctic (France, Mongolia, Slovakia), and is recorded here for the first time from India. A second species, G. dahmsi, was described from Australia (Simutnik & Trjapitzin 2008).
Comments. Globulencyrtus is similar to Semen Hoffer (1954, type species S. apterum Hoffer) but differs in the following characters: head posteriorly overlapping at least the pronotum and anterior part of mesoscutum; axilla narrow, elongate, small sclerite on each side of scutellum; apex of scutellum truncate; tegula large, about as long as anterior margin of the fore wing; fore wing small, the two wings widely separated posteriorly. In Semenhead posteriorly overlapping only pronotum; axilla small but normal, triangular; tegula small; fore wing posteriorly broad, with right wing overlapping left wing posteriorly. The genera Globulencyrtus and Semen belong to the tribe Discodini Hoffer (1954; see also Noyes 2010).
description: Published as part of Hayat, Mohammad, Zeya, Shahid Bin & Veenakumari, K., 2013, On some brachypterous Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India, with description of four new species, pp. 259-276 in Zootaxa 3716 (2) on pages 268-269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3716.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/223425