Additions to the Encyrtidae and Mymaridae (Chalcidoidea) of India with new distribution and host records for some species
Author
Rameshkumar, A.
Author
Poorani, J.
Author
V, Naveen
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2015
3
5216
5216
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5216
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5216
1314-2828-3-5216
Paraphaenodiscus monawari Bhuiya, 1998
Paraphaenodiscus monawari
Bhuiya 1998
: 272.-
Hayat 2006
: 161.
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
Sunil Joshi
; individualCount:
3 and 1
; sex:
females and male
; lifeStage:
Adult
; Location: continent: Asia; country:
India
; stateProvince: Karnataka; municipality: Bangalore; locality:
Hebbal
; verbatimElevation: 920m; verbatimCoordinates:
N13°13'
E77°00'
; Identification: identifiedBy: J Poorani; Event: samplingProtocol:
Host rearing
; eventDate:
26-11-2014
; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultrual Insect Resources; institutionCode:
NBAIR
Diagnosis
Female (Fig. 9a) robust in outline. Head orange with greenish eyes. Mesosoma reddish brown, scutellum slightly darker and medially infuscate. Legs yellowish-orange except tarsal apices darker. Antenna with scape flattened and expanded beneath, black; F1-4 brown, F5 and F6 white, clava dark brown to black. Frontovertex less than one-fifth of head width. Fore wing infuscate.
Male (Fig. 9b) with dark metallic green head, mesosoma yellowish-orange, metasoma blackish except lateral sides yellowish, legs pale yellow.
Distribution
India: Assam (
Hayat 2006
); new to southern India (Karnataka).
Biology
Reared from
Pulvinaria polygonata
Cockerell (
Sternorrhyncha
:
Coccidae
) (new host). Known hosts include
Pulvinaria psidii
Maskell on guava and undetermined coccids on lemon (
Bhuiya 1998
).