Date:
November 9, 2015
Source:
Pensoft Publishers
Long
accustomed to parasitising spider eggs, a large worldwide genus of wasps has as
few as 24 known representatives in India. However, Dr. Veenakumari,
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, and her team have
recently discovered five new species of these interesting wasps from different
parts of the country. Because of their uniqueness and their strong resemblance
to each other, as well to aid taxonomic studies they have been considered as
constituting a group of their own. The discoveries and the suggestion of 'the
first long-haired ones' species group are available in the open-access
journal Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift.
Among
the unique features that bring together the new five species, discovered by
Drs. Veenakumari Kamalanathan, Prashanth Mohanraj and F. R. Khan, are the long
hair-like structures along the margins of both of their wings. This is also the
reason behind the authors' choice of naming the proposed group adikeshavus,
meaning 'first one to have long hairs' in Sanskrit.
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