A new species of Monorthocaeta Blood (Hymenoptera; Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae) from Adana, Türkiye

The works on the genus, Monorthocaeta Blood, 1923 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae) are not many. After description of the genus and its type species, M. nigra Blood, by Blood (1923), again M. nigra was described by Blood & Kryger (1928). Nowicki (1940) discussed the status of the genus in the family and described two new species, M.galatica Nowicki and M. 'obscuriceps Nowicki, the latter was given as a synonym of M. galatica by Doutt & Viggiani (1968). Nikol'skaya (1952) and Nikol'skaya & Tryapitzin (1978) gave the diagnostic characters and distribution of the genus, and created an identification key to its European species. Peck et al., (1964) keyed the genera of Trichogrammatidae, and gave the European species of Monorthocaeta, M. nigra and M. galatica. Doutt & Viggiani (1968) discussed the characteristics of the genus, Monorthocaeta, in the key to the genera of Trichogrammatidae and gave the species and their general distributions.