Conura Spinola, 1837, 1992

Binoy, C., Nasser, M. & Santhosh, S., 2022, Taxonomic studies of the genus Conura Spinola (Chalcididae: Chalcidinae) from Oriental region with the first report of two New World species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2), pp. 245-256 : 246

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.2.245
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17021019
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scientific name	Conura Spinola, 1837
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Genus Conura Spinola, 1837 View in CoL

Conura Spinola, 1837:1–2 View in CoL . Type species by monotypy Conura flavicans Spinola, 1837 View in CoL .

See Delvare (1992:192, 193) for a complete list of synonymies.

Diagnosis. Head with pre- and postorbital carina absent; petiolate metasoma; mesotibia with an apical spur; claws normal, edentate; vertically placed propodeal spiracle; hypopygium and ovipositor sheath not produced apically.

Host. Coleoptera ; Lepidoptera ; Diptera ; Hymenoptera ( Vejar-Cota et al., 2005; Bulgarella et al., 2017; Noyes, 2019).

Distribution. Mostly Neotropic and Nearctic (> 300 spp.); Afrotropical (~5 spp.); Oriental (3 spp.); Palaearctic (2 spp.) ( Noyes, 2019; present report).

Remarks. Oriental fauna of Conura is represented by the only species C. xanthostigma (Dalman) . Two New World species C. abdominalis (Walker, 1861)) and maculata ( C. nigrifrons ( Cameron, 1884) are reported for the first time from Oriental region ( Kerala, India). The species were assigned to xanthostigma group and maculata group using the keys to species group of Conura Spinola ( Delvare, 1992) .