Nain Deepak, Rana Anjali, Raychoudhury Rhitoban, Sen Ruchira
Department of Zoology; Panjab University; Chandigarh; India.
Department of Biological Sciences; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER Mohali); Knowledge City; Sector 81; SAS Nagar; Mohali; Punjab; India 140306.
Zootaxa. 2024 Aug 14;5493(5):561-576. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.5.5.
We report the morphology, biology and phylogeny of a new strepsipteran endoparasitic species: Xenos gadagkari, which stylopises the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes wattii from Punjab, India. We report a high abundance of the endoparasite in P. wattii population of our study area and provide the morphological description of adult males, male puparium and neotenic females. This species is sufficiently different from other species of Xenos reported from social wasps and therefore, constitutes a new species, X. gadagkari Sen and Nain, sp. nov. Although there are a few reports of strepsipteran parasitoids from India, this is the first confirmed report with a description of a Xenos species from the Indian population of P. wattii. Our findings contribute to the growing body of knowledge on Xenos and provide a foundation for future behavioural, microbial and molecular studies on this enigmatic group of insects.
Xenos gadagkari的形态、生物学和系统发育情况，该物种寄生于印度旁遮普邦原始群居性黄蜂Polistes wattii体内。我们报告了在我们研究区域的瓦氏胡蜂种群中这种内寄生蜂的高丰度，并提供了成年雄性、雄性蛹和幼态雌性的形态描述。该物种与从群居黄蜂中报道的其他Xenos物种有足够的差异，因此，构成了一个新物种，即X. gadagkari Sen和Nain，新物种。尽管有一些关于印度捻翅目寄生蜂的报道，但这是首次对来自印度瓦氏胡蜂种群的Xenos物种进行确认并描述的报告。我们的研究结果为关于Xenos的知识积累做出了贡献，并为未来对这一神秘昆虫群体的行为、微生物和分子研究奠定了基础。
