Smicromorpha keralensis

Smicromorpha keralensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Chalcididae
Subfamily:	Smicromorphinae
Genus:	Smicromorpha
Species:	S. keralensis
Binomial name
Smicromorpha keralensis Narendran, 1979

Distribution

India

Biology

Host ant: Oecophylla smaragdina

References

• Masner, Lubomir, and José Luis García R. "The genera of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) in the New World. Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 268." (2002).

• Pérez-Lachaud, G., Noyes, J., & Lachaud, J.-P. (2012). FIRST RECORD OF AN ENCYRTID WASP (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA) AS A TRUE PRIMARY PARASITOID OF ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE). The Florida Entomologist, 95(4), 1066–1076.

• Loiácono M.S., Margaria C.B., Quirán E., & B.C. Molas 2002. Revision of the myrmecophilous diapriid genus Bruchopria Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Diapriidae) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 46(3): 231-235 30.IX.2002

• Loiácono M, Margaría C, Moreira DD, Aquino D. A new species of Szelenyiopria Fabritius (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae), larval parasitoid of Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus (Forel) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa. 2013;3646:228-34.