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. 2022 Apr;99(2):141-201.
doi: 10.1007/s11230-021-10020-6. Epub 2022 Feb 7.

Review of the genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) of India

Veenakumari Kamalanathan  1 , Ovidiu Alin Popovici  2 , Sreedevi Kolla  3 , Prashanth Mohanraj  3 , Andrew Polaszek  4
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Review of the genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) of India

Veenakumari Kamalanathan et al. Syst Parasitol. 2022 Apr.

Abstract

The genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Scelionidae) of the Indian region is revised. Fifteen new species of Calotelea - C. andamanensis sp. n., C. aurea sp. n., C. brevinotaularis sp. n., C. hodgsoni sp. n., C. kannagiae sp. n., C. lambodara sp. n., C. longistriata sp. n., C. mandavyai sp. n., C. marykingsleyae sp. n., C. microtrichiana sp. n., C. nigriventris sp. n., C. oloftoreni sp. n., C. sibyllamerianae sp. n., C. sushrutai sp. n. and C. trikona sp. n. - are described and imaged. Images of previously described species, C. auriventria Sharma, 1978 and C. immaculata Sharma, 1982, are also provided. Calotelea cameroni (Masner, 1965) is revalidated and redescribed as Probaryconus cameroni Masner, 1965 status revalidated based on morphological characters. Keys to females and known males of Indian species of Calotelea are furnished. While sexual dimorphism with differently coloured males and females has been reported earlier in some species of Calotelea, intrasexual colour dimorphism among females of a species is reported here for the first time.

Keywords: Colour morphs; Egg parasitoids; New species; Oriental region; Sexual dimorphism.

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