Key to species of Seres

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae)

FEMALES

1A	Fore tibial armature consists of a plate of many teeth fused to the dorso-axial face of the tibia (fig.a); mandible with a single ventral ridge (fig. b), ex F. bubu .......................................... Seres wardi van Noort

1B	Fore tibial armature consists of a dorso-apical comb of teeth (fig. a) that may have an additional two combs above it (fig. b); mandible with two or three ventral teeth (fig. c) ..................................... 2

Epistomal margin with a medial tooth (fig. a); 3 anelli, 4 funicle segments (fig. b); proximal maxillary palp segment shorter than the medial segment (fig. c), ex F. artocarpoides ................................... ....................................................................................................... Seres longicalcar van Noort

2B	Epistomal margin subquadrate (fig. a); 2 anelli, 4 funicle segments (fig. b); proximal maxillary palp segment longer than the medial segment (fig. c) ............................................................... 3

Epistomal margin protrudes anteriorly no further than the paraclypeal margins (fig. a), ex F. ovata (Zambia), F. polita polita, F. sansibarica sansibarica, F. sansibarica macrosperma ... ........................................................................................................ Seres solweziensis van Noort

3B	Epistomal margin protrudes anteriorly further than the paraclypeal margins (fig. a) ........... 4

4A	Head more than twice as long as wide and more than 4.5X wider than the epistomal margin (fig. a), ex F. ovata (West Africa) ......................................................................... Seres armipes armipes Waterston

4B	Head less than twice as long as wide and less than 4.1X wider than the epistomal margin (fig. a), ex F. ovata (East Africa) ............................................................ Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes

MALES (The male of Seres longicalcar van Noort is unknown)

1A	Head metallic green, rest of body testaceous (fig. a); head narrows anteriorly (fig. b) ...................... 2

1B	Head and rest of body testaceous (fig. a); head parallel sided, as broad anteriorly as posteriorly (fig. b) ............................................................................................................................................ 3

2A	Epistomal margin gently concave (fig. a), ex F. bubu ........................... Seres wardi van Noort

2B	Epistomal margin with medial tooth (fig. a), ex F. artocarpoides ........ Seres longicalcar van Noort

3A	Subapical mandibular tooth bicuspid (fig. a), ex F. ovata ........... Seres armipes armipes Waterston

3B	Subapical mandibular tooth unicuspid (fig. a) ............................................................................. 3

4A	Marginal vein short, 5.4X longer than wide (fig. a), ex F. ovata (Zambia), F. polita polita, F. sansibarica sansibarica, F. sansibarica macrosperma ........................................ Seres solweziensis van Noort

4B	Marginal vein more elongate, at least 7.0X longer than wide (fig. 26), ex F. ovata ....................... ............................................................................................... Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)