taxonID	type	description	language	source
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	description	(Figures 2 – 3)	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype, female, INDIA: Kerala, Malappuram, Calicut University Campus, collected 5 March 2023, emerged 15 March 2023, from leaf galls of Pongamia pinnata induced by Aceria pongamiae, coll. B. Niveditha and S. V. Ayiswarya. Paratypes, 3 females with same data as holotype (AIMB).	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	description	Description FEMALE. Body length 0.8 mm, forewing 0.4 mm. Head Head 1.6 × as wide as long in dorsal view (Figure 2 D), 1.2 × as wide as mesosoma (Figure 2 B); POL: OOL: LOL = 3.5: 1.0: 2.0. Head 1.1 × as wide as high in frontal view (Figure 2 C); malar space 0.6 × as long as eye height; lateral margin of torulus distinctly raised (Figure 2 C); intertorular carina indistinct (Figure 2 C); frontal depression granulate (Figure 2 D); ocellar foveae present (Figure 2 D); preocellar pit present (Figure 2 D); facial pit absent (Figure 2 D); preoccipital furrow present and extending from anterior ocellus to occipital foramen (Figure 2 B); preoccipital carina present (Figure 2 B, F); preoccipital lunula present (Figure 2 B, F); occipital carina present (Figure 2 B, F); occipital depression absent (Figure 2 B, F); occiput faintly sculptured (Figure 2 B, F). Antenna 10 - merous (Figure 2 E); scape about 0.7 × as long as height of head, as long as distance between inner orbits; pedicel 2.5 × as long as flagellomere 1; the following flagellomeres gradually widened (Figure 2 E); flagellomere 7 about 4.0 × as wide as flagellomere 1; club 1 merous (Figure 2 E). Mesosoma Mesosoma 1.1 × as long as wide (Figure 2 A); 1.3 × as high as wide; ventral pronotal pit indistinct (Figures 2 A and 3 A); mesoscutum granulate, sparsely setose (Figure 2 B, F); setal base slightly pustulate (Figure 2 B, F); median mesoscutal sulcus indistinct to absent (Figure 2 B, F); notaulus absent (Figure 2 B, F); parapsidal line absent (Figure 2 B, F); interaxillar sulcus indistinct (Figure 2 B, F); mesoscutal humeral sulcus distinct. Scutoscutellar sulcus straight, shallow, continuous with interaxillar sulcus (Figure 2 B, F); dorsal axillar area and mesoscutellum sculptured as mesoscutum, with distinct lateral carina that connects posterior mesoscutellar sulcus (Figures 2 B, F and 3 C); mesoscutellum 1.3 × as long as wide (Figure 2 B, F); anterior mesopleural sulcus distinct (Figures 2 A and 3 A); mesopleural area finely reticulate anteriorly with several setae (Figures 2 A and 3 A); dorsal mesometapleural carina slightly curved (Figures 2 A and 3 A); intersection of anterior mesopleural sulcus and dorsal mesometapleural carina forms obtuse angle (Figures 2 A and 3 A); metapleural carina distinct, extends near dorsal mesometapleural carina (Figures 2 A and 3 A). Wings Forewing about 2.7 × as long as wide, with a darkly pigmented band central two-third (Figure 3 D); radial vein 1.8 × as long as marginal vein (Figure 3 D). Legs Metacoxa bare dorsally (Figure 3 A); longitudinal metacoxal carina present at base (Figure 3 A); meta femur 2.5 × as long as wide. Metasoma Syntergum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly, as long as wide, smooth, occupying 0.6 × total length of metasoma (Figures 2 B, F and 3 C); syntergum with short longitudinal striae (Figures 2 B, F and 3 C). Colour Body yellow except scape, basal flagellomeres, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, forewing medially, syntergum subposteriorly brown. Male Unknown.	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	distribution	Distribution India (Kerala).	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology Reared from Microdiplosis pongamiae Mani, which feeds on the gall mite Aceria pongamiae Kieffer.	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species is named after the peculiar host association as it parasitises the cecidomyiid which feeds on the gall-inducing mites.	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
03EA8794FFECFFE04285FBA6FC77F94E.taxon	diagnosis	Comparative diagnosis This new species belongs to the tenuicornis (sensu Evans et al. 2005) species group in having the mesoscutum without a median sulcus, and the metasoma with a basal transverse carina. Currently, there are only three species known to be associated with acariphagous cecidomyiids (A. floridanus, A. fulmeki and A. flavigastris). Among these, only A. floridanus, which also belongs to the tenuicornis species group, shows some resemblance to A. cecidovorus sp. n. Based on the character combination of the tenuicornis species group, we can exclude the other two species. Furthermore, the new species can be distinguished from A. fulmeki and A. flavigastris, by its distinct body colour pattern. In addition to the differences in general body colour, and colour of antennae and legs, the new species can be distinguished from A. floridanus from the positioning of the transverse band on the forewing, which extends from subbasally to the basal half of the radial vein (transverse band present before marginal vein in A. floridanus); the distinctly curved radial vein (straight in A. floridanus), which is 1.8 × as long as the marginal vein (1.5 × in A. floridanus); and metasoma 1.4 × as long as mesosoma (metasoma not longer than mesosoma in A. floridanus).	en	Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B., Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2023): A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44): 1963-1971, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237
