Zozoros Noyes and Hayat

Zozoros Noyes and Hayat View in CoL

( Type species, Z. sinemarginis Noyes & Hayat, 1984, p. 350 –352.)

Diagnosis

Body generally yellow brown to dark brown, head with shallow to deep, conspicuous piliferous punctures; occipital margin sharp to round; mandible either bi or tridentate; funicle segments transverse to clearly longer than broad; clava three segmented, at least as long as funicle, strongly apically obliquely truncate, the truncate part clearly longer than remaining ventral surface of clava; forewing marginal vein either absent or punctiform, the postmarginal and stigmal veins emitted from apex of submarginal with postmarginal vein not touching wing margin, apices of stigma and postmarginal veins connected by a distinct, hairless streak; hypopygium more or less reaching gaster apex.

Distribution. Hong Kong, Philippines, Brunei, New Britain ( Noyes and Hayat 1984); Senegal ( Noyes and Prinsloo 1998); India (New record).

Key to species of Zozoros , Females

1. Frontovertex almost smooth with extremely shallow piliferous punctures and mandible bidentate; stigmal vein straight and almost at right angles to anterior wing margin........... .................................................................................................................................. Z. adamsoniae (Risbec)

- Frontovertex with shallow to deep piliferous punctures, mandible tridentate (Fig. 445 of Noyes and Hayat 1984); stigmal vein curved ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 (a))........................................................... 2

2. F 1 longer than broad, F 2 -F 6 broader than long; pedicel 2.25× as long as broad (Fig 65 of Noyes and Hayat 1984); frontovertex with deep piliferous punctures (Fig. 445 of Noyes and Hayat 1984); all funicle segments with mps...... ...... Z. sinemarginis Noyes and Hayat

- All funicle segments distinctly transverse; pedicel about 1.2× as long as broad ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (c)); frontovertex with shallow piliferous punctures ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (b)); only F 4 -F 6 with mps........ ................................................................. Z. noyesi Manickavasagam and Ayyamperumal sp.nov.