Grooca a new name for Neoepistenia Sureshan and Narendran (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

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by  P M Sureshan

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 175
The specimens are presently kept in the Research Station, Calicut for providing facilities and
collections of Zoological Survey of India, Western encouragement. I am also grateful to Dr. T.C.
Ghats Field Research Station, Calicut, eventually to Narendran, Professor, Dept, ofZoology, University
be deposited in the National Zoological collections of Calicut, Kerala for confirming the species
of Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. identification and for critically going through the
manuscript and offering valuable suggestions.
Acknowledgements
SURESHAN
April 4, 1996 P.M.
I am grateful to the Director, Zoological Zoological Survey ofIndia,
Survey ofIndia, Calcutta and the Officer-in-charge, Western Ghats Field Research Station,
Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghats Field Calicut. Kerala 673 002.
R EFI E N C E S
Boucek, Z. 1978): Study ofthenon-podagrionineTorymidae Orientali (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Eos. 3(1): 29-
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with enlarged hind femora, with a key to the African 48.
genera (Hymenoptera). J. Ent. Soc. Sth. Afr. 41(1): 91- Narendran,T.C. (1989):Oriental Chalcididae(Hymenoptera:
134. Chalcidoidea). Zool. monograph. Dept. Zool. Uni.
Masi, L. (1927): Contributo alia Conoscenza der Dirhinini Calicut. Kerala, pp. 1-500.
GROOCA, A NEW NAME FOR NEOEPISTENIA SURESHAN & NARENDRAN
31.
(HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA: PTEROMALIDAE)
The nam^Neoepisteniawas applied (Sureshan Grooca coorgensis (Sureshan and
and Narendran, 1995) to a genus erected for the new Narendran), comb. nov.
species N. coorgensis collected from the forests of Neoepistenia coorgensis Sureshan and
Coorg (Karnataka). Unfortunately the authors Narendran, 1995, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 92(1):
overlooked the valid and prior use of Neoepistenia 96-99.
by Hedqvist (1958). Neoepistenia Hedqvist was
erected with N. flavoscapus Hedqvist as the type Acknowledgements
species (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Hence
Neoepistenia Sureshan and Narendran is a junior We are grateful to Dr. John. S. Noyes (London)
homonym which has to be replaced according to the andDr. K.J. Hedqvist(Sweden) forhelp in this study.
rules of the International Zoological Nomenclature.
The new nameGrooca is an arbitary combination of April 4, 1996 P.M. SURESHAN
letters of feminine gender. Zoological Survey ofIndia,
Western Ghat Field Research Station,
family: Pteromalidae Calicut,
Genus Grooca, nom. nov. Kerala 673 002.
NARENDRAN
T.C.
Neoepistenia Sureshan and Narendran (1995) Department ofZoology,
J.Bombaynat. Hist. Soc. 92(1): 96-99. Not Hedqvist, University ofCalicut,
1958. Kerala 673 635.
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Hedqvist, KJ. (1958): Notes on Chalcidoidea V.A. revision Sureshan, P.M. & Narendran, T.C. (1995): A new genus of
ofthe genus Lycisca Spin, and descriptions ofsome new Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Coorg,
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