Review of the genus Sparasion Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Sparasionidae) of the Oriental region with descriptions of new species from India.

Background: The genus Sparasion, endoparasitoids of Tettigoniidae, occur in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is absent in the Neotropics and Australasia. Of the thirteen species found in the Oriental region only a single species is from India.

Review of the genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) of India.

The genus Calotelea Westwood, 1837 (Scelionidae) of the Indian region is revised. Fifteen new species of Calotelea - C. andamanensis sp.

Review of the genus Isolia Förster (Platygastroidea: Platygastridae: Sceliotrachelinae) with description of two new species from India.

Two new species of Isolia Förster viz. I. bhima Veenakumari and Buhl sp.

A new sexually dichromatic species of Telenomus Haliday (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) from India.

A new species of Telenomus which is sexually dichromatic is described and imaged from India.

Two new species of Apteroscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India.

Two new species of Apteroscelio Kieffer, a previously monotypic genus, are here described, illustrated and keyed. Affinities between Apteroscelio and other scelionine genera are discussed. The male of this genus is imaged and described for the first time.

A new Indian species of Pardoteleia Kozlov & Lê (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae: Scelioninae) and first description of the male.

Pardoteleia, a monotypic genus was described by Kozlov and Lê (1988). A new species Pardoteleia flava from India is now described and imaged. The hitherto unknown male of this genus is also described and imaged for the first time.

Description of four new species of brachypterous Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India.

Four new brachypterous species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) are described. These are: Astymachus eximius Hayat, sp. nov.

Chakra, a new genus of Scelioninae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from India, along with description of a new species.

A new genus and one new species of Scelioninae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae) is described and illustrated from India: Chakra Rajmohana and Veenakumari, gen. nov. and Chakra sarvatra Rajmohana and Veenakumari, sp.

The life cycle and immature stages of Kallima albofasciata, the endemic Oakleaf, in the Andaman Islands (Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal).

Kallima albofasciata Moore 1877 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), a species of Oakleaf butterfly reported for the first time from the Andaman Islands in 1874, was recognized as an insular endemic in 1877. Studies so far indicate that it is restricted to the contiguous islands of South and Middle Andamans. On these islands it apparently has a very localized distribution, giving rise to fears that it may be vulnerable and could face the threat of extinction with increasing developmental pressures on its habitat.