Studies on Indian Mymaridae III (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)

Abstract

MANI (1938) in his catalogue of Indian Chalcidoidea recorded only six species of the family Mymaridae. To this he added three more species (1942). Since then Subba Rao and Kaur (1959)described 5 species of Lymaenon Haliday and a species of Neurotes Enock. Very recently Narayanan et al. (1960) gave descriptions of 3 more species which include the genera Polynema Haliday and Maidliella Soyka. In this present paper the authors deal with descriptions of a few more species of the genera Lymaenon and Polynema. A key to the species has been given under each genus. Types have been deposited in the "National Pusa Collection", Division of Entomology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.