author(s)
S Manickavasagam and A Athithya

abstract
Mymarids (fairyflies) are economically important, internal, primary egg parasitoids of auchenorrhynchous hemipteran insects. They play a crucial role in managing cicadellids and delphacids in agricultural and horticulatural ecosystems. An updated checklist of Indian Mymaridae is provided with 38 genera and 194 species that constitute 32.8 and 11.9 per cent of world genera and species respectively. Five genera viz., Allanagrus, Dorya, Platystethynium, Schizophragma and Stephanocampta were newly recorded, four genera viz., Cosmocomoidea, Lymaenon, Tanyxiphium and Zeyanus were added during reclassification of Gonatocerus, 56 new species were described and 12 first reports of species were made from India. Seven species viz., Acmopolynema shrawastianum, Erythmelus lygivorus, Gonatocerus sulphuripes, G. tarae, G. pahlgamensis, G. similis and Polynema huberi were synonymized and one species misidentified.