Records of sub family Scelioninae ( Hymenoptera : Platygastridae ) from oriental region with description of one new species

A new species from genus Cardalnamannus and re-description of species from genus Encyrtoscelio Dodd (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) is being described, which were collected by sweet net collection from the state of Uttarakhand, India. The species Cardalnaumannus ramamurthyum sp. nov. is described as new species and re-description of species Encyrtoscelio apterus (Szelényi) for the first time from Uttarakhand, India.


INTRODUCTION
The genus, Cardalnaumannus was enacted by Mineo et al. (2011) with species, Gryon amleticus and classified in the new tribe Dyscritobaenini of the Family Platygastridae.The genus is reported only from Australia with only one species, Gryon amleticus.The host and biology is not known (Mineo et al., 2011).The other genus, Encyrtoscelio was enacted by Dodd with type species Encyrtoscelio mirissimus Dodd.Recently, the genus was keyed by Lê (2000), Rajmohana (2006) and Kononova and Kozlov (2008).The present study described Cardalnaumannus ramamurthyum sp.nov.with re-description of Encyrtoscelio apterus (Szelényi) from Oriental region for the first time.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Specimens were collected during the course of the survey programme, during the months of October 2011 and March 2012 in and around Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) area.Morphological terminology follows Masner (1979;1980), Johnson and Masner (1985) and István et al. (2007).Antenna, wings and legs were mounted in Canada balsam after overnight immersion in 10% KOH and exposure to 70, 80 and 99% ethyl alcohol and clove oil.Photographs of wings were taken with the help of Leica Live Image Analyzer set up developed by Olympus.Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was done on Jeol JSM6610LV/A/LA (Japan optical electrical limited) after 24 nm thick palladium coating in a JFC1600 Sputter Coater (Japan optical electrical limited) at 6 x 10 -2 mbar; and images were taken at 23-24 Pa, between 150 and 370x.

Description of species
Cardalnaumannus ramamurthyum sp.nov.

Paratype: Nil
Etymology: Named after Dr. V. V. Ramamurthy for his outstanding contribution to insect taxonomy in India.
All images were processed in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.The types, C. ramamurthyum and E. apterus are temporarily retained in the Entomological Museum, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar and will be deposited in the National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (NPC) shortly.