Ceranisus sp. 2

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 261-315 : 306

Ceranisus sp. 2

(Not included in the key)

Diagnosis: Female. Unknown.

Male. Body and appendages dark brown to black. Antennal segments as follows: scape slender, F1 shorter than F2, clava rather long. Forewing densely setose including the area behind base of marginal vein; postmarginal vein very long, about as long as in C. udnamtak sp. n.; membrane slightly infuscated behind venation. Genitalia typical for the pacuvius species group.

It appears to be an undescribed species. The antennal scape in this male is not swollen, like in Ceranisus sp. 1 .

Material examined: NEPAL: Lalitpur District: Phulchoki, 2600 m, 14.x.1983, A. Smetana, Löbl, 1ơ [ CNCI] .

Hosts: Unknown.

Species excluded from Ceranisus

Ceranisus ancylae (Girault, 1917) in Noyes 2002, mistakenly listed in Ceranisus

Thripoctenus ancylae Girault, 1917 : Fullaway & Dobroscky 1933: 3439 (mistakenly listed in Thripoctenus ). Ceranisus ancylae (Girault) : Noyes 2002.

Comments: Girault (1917 c) described ancylae in the genus Sympiesis Förster , not in Thripoctenus as mistakenly indicated first by Fullaway and Dobroscky (1933) (Loomans & van Lenteren 1995) and more recently in Ceranisus by Noyes (2002).