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Issue: Vol. 3814 No. 3: 10 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.3.4
Page range: 369–384
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of a new genus and three species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India

Forest Entomology Division, Forest Research Institute, New Forest, Dehradun – 248 006 Uttarakhand, INDIA.
Institute of Wood Science and Technology, P.O. Malleswaram, Bangaluru – 560 003, Karnataka, INDIA
Institute of Wood Science and Technology, P.O. Malleswaram, Bangaluru – 560 003, Karnataka, INDIA
New genus new species Noyesencyrtus brachyoculus Psyllaephagus kundapurensis Psyllaephagus mesohomotomae Ooencyrtus hayatii taxonomy fungal fruiting bodies Vateria indica canopy mangroves parasitoids

Abstract

A new genus of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Noyesencyrtus Singh gen. nov. (type species N. brachyoculus Singh sp. nov.), associated with insects inhabiting fruiting bodies of wood-decaying fungi, and two new species, Psyllaephagus kundapurensis Singh sp. nov. and Ooencyrtus hayatii Singh sp. nov., are described from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.