Closterocerus Westwood 1833
Creators: name: Jamali, Mohd Majid
name: Zeya, Shahid Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Closterocerus

description: Key to Indian species of Closterocerus (females)   
1 Scape slender, at least 5× as long as broad (Fig. 2B)... 2  
– Scape strongly compressed or flattened, at most 2.7× as long as broad (Figs 6B, 8B)...................................... 3  
 2 Fore wing with brown infuscate patch below stigmal vein, with row of setae radiating from stigmal knob (Fig. 1B); middle lobe of mesoscutum with one pair of setae (Fig. 2E)............. C. longiscapus (Bouček, 1986)   
 – Fore wing hyaline, with two rows of setae radiating from stigmal knob (Fig. 3B); midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of setae (Fig. 4C)..................................... ................................ C. pulcherrimus (Kerrich, 1970)   
 3 Body length at least 2 mm; fore wing with middle band becoming broadened posteriorly (NARAYANAN et al. 1960: fig.1)........................................................................................... C. agromyzae Narayanan et al., 1960   
– Body length at most 1.35 mm; fore wing with middle band slightly broadened in middle or nearly uniform in width (Figs 5B, 7B)................................................... 4  
 4 Fore wing with speculum opened and, with middle band slightly broadened medially (MANI 1971: fig.12)................................. C. phytomyzae Mani, 1971   
– Fore wing with speculum closed (Figs. 5B, 9B), with middle band nearly uniform in width........................ 5  
 5 Clava with C2 relatively more transverse, at least 2× as broad as long; hind wing relatively broad, at most 3.75× as long as broad..... C. insignis Waterston, 1915   
– Clava with C2 relatively less transverse, at most 1.5× as broad as long; hind wing relatively narrow, at least 4.6× as long as broad..................................................... 6  
 6 Middle lobe of mesoscutum with 3 pairs of setae (Fig. 6D); hind wing 4.6–5.06× as long as broad..................................................... C. scapiatus Singh & Khan, 1996   
– Middle lobe of mesoscutum with 1 pair of setae; hind wing more than 6× as long as broad........................... 7  
 7 Clava 3.6× as long as broad; mesoscutum with polygonal reticulate sculpture, and with relatively larger cells (Fig. 8C); fore wing with proximal patch relatively broad and darker (Fig. 7B)............................................................................................... C. pakyongensis sp. nov.   
 – Clava 1.7× as long as broad; mesoscutum with polygonal reticulate sculpture, and with relatively smaller cells, becoming faint posteriorly (Fig. 10C); fore wing with proximal patch relatively narrow and faint (Fig. 9B)..................................................... C. junubi sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Jamali, Mohd Majid & Zeya, Shahid Bin, 2021, Review of Indian Closterocerus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae), with description of two new species, pp. 231-241 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 61 (1) on page 232, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2021.013, http://zenodo.org/record/5037438