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A New Species of Ecdamua Walker from The Cold Desert of Ladakh, India (hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea : Torymidae)

In connection with the project "Rapid assessment of faunal resources of cold desert l.adakh", field surveys were conducted by Zoological Survey of India in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. During the first survey programme of the above project, an interesting torymid species with an exceptionally long ovipositor from Leh, the district headquarters of Ladakh was obtained. The specimen was collected from the campus of the Forest Rest house. Leh. The vegetation of the area was dominated by medium sized willow trees around and the ground covered with small grasses and some flowering plants. The collection was made by sweeping with an insect net mainly over the leaves of willow trees and only one specimen could be collected after repeated sweeps in the area. Detailed studies revealed that the specimen belongs to an undescribed species of a very rare genus, Ecdamua Walker, which is described hereunder. The genus Ecdamua Walker belongs to the subfamily Toryminae of the family Torymidae and contains 5 described species from the world (see table). Ecdamua species are believed to be parasitoids of aculeate Hymenoptera nesting in dead wood and are found in the vicinity of such holed wood (Boucek. 1988. Narendran, 1994, Grissell, 1995, Zavada, 2005, Noyes, 2003). One new species of Ecdamua is described here based on female specimen collected from Leh, Ladakh. Following abbreviations are used in the text. F 1-F7Funicular segments 1 to 7; OOL-Oce!locular distance; POL-Postocellar distance; SMV-Sub marginal vein; MVMarginal vein; PMV-Postmarginal vein; STY-Stigmal vein; Tl-T6-Gastral tergites 1 to 6.