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The genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Scelionidae) of the Indian region is revised. Fifteen new species of Calotelea - C. andamanensis sp. n., C. aurea sp. n., C. brevinotaularis sp. n., C. hodgsoni sp. n., C. kannagiae sp. n., C. lambodara sp. n., C. longistriata sp. n., C. mandavyai sp. n., C. marykingsleyae sp. n., C. microtrichiana sp. n., C. nigriventris sp. n., C. oloftoreni sp. n., C. sibyllamerianae sp. n., C. sushrutai sp. n. and C. trikona sp. n. - are described and imaged. Images of previously described species, C. auriventria Sharma, 1978 and C. immaculata Sharma, 1982, are also provided. Calotelea cameroni (Masner, 1965) is revalidated and redescribed as Probaryconus cameroni Masner, 1965 status revalidated based on morphological characters. Keys to females and known males of Indian species of Calotelea are furnished. While sexual dimorphism with differently coloured males and females has been reported earlier in some species of Calotelea, intrasexual colour dimorphism among females of a species is reported here for the first time.
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The first, third and forth authors are grateful to the Director, NBAIR, Bengaluru for providing facilities. We are extremely grateful to Drs L. Masner, N.F. Johnson and E. J. Talamas for taxonomic discussions. We thank B.L. Lakshmi, V. Shashikala, B. Vinod and Roopa for their support both in the field and in the laboratory. Thanks are also due to Prof. N. F. Johnson for the Hymenoptera online database for literature support.
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The project was supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India.
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Kamalanathan, V., Popovici, O.A., Kolla, S. et al. Review of the genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) of India. Syst Parasitol 99, 141–201 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-021-10020-6
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