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Issue: Vol. 4375 No. 2: 24 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.6
Page range: 265–272
Abstract views: 70
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A new sexually dichromatic species of Telenomus Haliday (Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) from India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bangalore, India, 560024.
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bangalore, India, 560024.
Hymenoptera Telenominae biological control xanthism

Abstract

A new species of Telenomus which is sexually dichromatic is described and imaged from India.

 

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