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Issue: Vol. 3227 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3227.1.3
Page range: 54–63
Abstract views: 30

A new species of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), a larval parasitoid of Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), along with some new host records of parasitoids from Peninsular India

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
Blaisinette' Plot 5, I. C. Colony, Cross Road No. 3, Borivli West, Mumbai 400103
Hymenoptera Glyptapanteles hypermnestrae Apanteles folia Arhopala amantes Pareronia valeria Brachymeria indica pupal parasitoid range extension

Abstract

A new species, Glyptapanteles hypermnestrae Gupta and Pereira, is described from Maharashtra, India, and comparedwith closely allied species. This new species was bred from parasitized larvae of Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus) (Lep-idoptera: Nymphalidae). In addition to this, two hymenopteran parasitoids, Apanteles folia Nixon (Braconidae: Microgas-trinae) and Brachymeria indica (Krausse) (Chalcididae), are for first time reported parasitizing larvae of Arhopalaamantes (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and pupae of Pareronia valeria (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) respectively.

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