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Issue: Vol. 4521 No. 2: 14 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.6
Page range: 258–264
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Ooencyrtus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), parasitoid on pupae of Xenasteia sp. (Diptera: Xenasteiidae) from Karnataka, India

Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, India
Diptera Encyrtinae mycophagous diptera

Abstract

A new species of Ooencyrtus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), O. xenasteiae Hayat & Gupta, sp. nov., is described. This species was reared from the pupae of a Xenasteia sp. (Diptera: Xenasteiidae), a sooty mould scavenger found associated with the recent invasive rugose spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from coastal Karnataka, India.

 

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