Two new species of Zaischnopsis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) from southern India and a key to oriental species

Abstract

The genus Zaischnopsis was erected by Ashmead (1986) under the name Ischnopsis with type species Ischnopsis opthalmica Ashmead. Since the name Ischnopsis was already preoccupied by Ischnopsis Walsingham (Walsingham, 1881), Ashmead (1904) later provided a replacement name Zaischnopsis for Ischnopsis Ashmead. Bouèek (1988) synonymized Zaischnopsis with Anastatus Motschulsky. Gibson (1995) reestablished the generic status of Zaischnopsis Ashmead. He also synonymised Eupelmoides Masi (1917) with Zaischnopsis. The genus Zaischnopsis contains 25 species in the world and six species in

Six new species of Zaischnopsis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae) from China based on morphological and molecular data

“…nov. (Fig. 1A); the former two species are found only in India (Narendran et al 2007). The fore wing apical angle of Z. biharensis is more acute than in the other two species (Peng et al 2018: fig.…”

“…There are three species from the Oriental region whose females have two hyaline spots behind the marginal vein of the fore wing, Z. biharensis (Narendram, 2004) (Narendran et al 2007: fig. 8), Z. bathericus Narendran, 2007(Narendran et al: 2007), and Z. covid sp. nov. (Fig.…”