Shahid Bin Zeya

A revision of the Indian species of Gonatocerus Nees (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae)

Abstract The Indian species of Gonatocerus Nees are revised. Thirty-nine valid species are recognized from India, including eleven species described as new in this paper. The Indian species are referred to three already known species-groups (ater-, sulphuripes-, litoralis-gioxips), and a new species-group (asulcifrons-group) proposed here for two Indian species. Separate keys to the species-groups and to species of three groups are given. The present study led to the proposal of 13 specific synonymies. Also five species are recorded from India for the first time, one species (kodaianus) described in Ooctonus Haliday is transferred to Gonatocerus as a new combination, and one species, G. longicrus Kieffer, is regarded as insertae sedis.

A review of the Indian species of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera; Encyrtidae)

Abstract The Indian species of the encyrtid genus Metaphycus Mercet are reviewed with comments on its higher classification. Two species are placed in synonymy. Each species is briefly diagnosed, and the known information on hosts and distribution is given. A key for the identification of the 12 Indian species out of the 13 recognized in this work is provided.

Four new species of Gonatocerus Nees (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India

Four new species of Gonatocerus belonging to the litoralis group viz. Gonatocerus sundus sp. nov., Gonatocerus manaliensis sp. nov., Gonatocerusramamurthyi sp. nov. and Gonatocerus farmani sp. nov. are described from the northeastern and northwestern states of India. The type specimens are deposited in the Insect Collection, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

Two new mymarid wasps of the genus Gonatocerus Nees with new records from India

Abstract Two new mymarid wasps of the genus Gonatocerus Nees belonging to litoralis-group viz., G. solanus sp. nov., and G. lakhimpuriensis sp.nov., are described from the Indian states of Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Gonatocerus litoralis Haliday is documented as new record from India, and distributional records of five other Indian species viz., G. munnarus Mani and Saraswat, G. narayani (Subba Rao and Kaur), G. ramamurthyi Zeya and Anwar, G. tamilanus Mani and Saraswat and G. venustus Zeya) are also provided.

The genus Gonatocerus Nees (Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from India with descriptions of two new species

Two new species of Gonatocerus of the ater group from India, namely G. hayati sp. nov., and G. kashipurensis sp. nov., are described from the states of Uttarakhand and West Bengal. New records of G. kodaianus (Mani and Saraswat), G. trialbifuniculatus Subba Rao, G. ater Foerster, G. sahadevani (Subba Rao and Kaur) and G. monticolus Zeya, and a key to the Indian species of ater group are also given.

Review of the Indian species of Palaeoneura Waterhouse (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

Abstract The Indian species of the kusnezovi group of Palaeoneura Waterhouse (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) are reviewed. This group consists of species previously classified in Chaetomymar.Two new species, P. farmani sp. nov. and P. vegis sp. nov. are described. The four known species are diagnosed/ redescribed, and a key to Indian species of Palaeoneura is given.

Description of two new species of Anagyrini (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), with some records from India

Abstract Two new species of Anagyrini (Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae), Anagyrus deccanus Zeya & Jamali, sp. nov. and Cryptanusia bela Zeya & Fatima, sp. nov., are described. The following species are newly recorded from the Indian States: Anagyrus aquilonaris (Noyes & Hayat) (Odisha, Maharashtra), A. levis Noyes & Hayat (Andhra Pradesh), Apoleptomastix rufipleuris Kerrich (Uttarakhand), A. rufiscapus Kerrich (Himachal Pradesh), Dusmetia fuscipennis (Noyes & Hayat) (Odisha), Leptomastix tsukumiensis Tachikawa (Himachal Pradesh), and Rhopus beatus Hayat & Khan (Uttarakhand). http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6303180-25ED-4344-8CF4-CE509B3ECDEF

A new species of Lymaenon Walker (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae: Gonatocerini) from India with the country checklist and new records

Abstract A new species of Lymaenon Walker, L. khalidi Amer & Zeya, sp. nov., is described. Out of 29 species of Lymaenon from India 11 species are recorded. Lymaenon breviterebratus (Subba Rao) is redescribed. Two species, Gonatocerus lakhimpuriensis Amer & Zeya and G. solanus Amer & Zeya are transferred to Lymaenon as new combinations. A checklist of Indian species of Lymaenon Walker is given. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C747F9F-390E-41CE-A6C8-4031F6C0AC37