First Record of the genus Lagynodes Förster, 1840 (Megaspilidae: Lagynodinae) from India, with the description of a new species and a molecular analysis
The subfamily Lagynodinae and genus Lagynodes Frster, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae) are reported for the first time from India. Lagynodes mikoi sp. nov. is described and illustrated from West Bengal, India. The species concept is based on an integrative taxonomic approach combining morphological and molecular characters. Comparison of the COI barcode further allows clear species delimitation from other published COI sequences of Lagynodes species.
Authors
- Amit Kumar Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0036-7825)
- Kaomud Tyagi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1064-9826)
- Vikas Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0215-0120)
- Tobias Salden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7993-8896)
Institutions
- Zoological Survey of India (IN)
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (DE)
- Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (DE)
- Systematic (Netherlands) (NL)
- Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zootaxa
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5673.2.8
- Primary Topic
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00