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Issue: Vol. 4085 No. 2: 2 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.9
Page range: 285–295
Abstract views: 48
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Description of three new species of Encyrtidae Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India

Parasitoid Taxonomy and Biocontrol Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Chidambaram 608002, Tamil Nadu, India
Parasitoid Taxonomy and Biocontrol Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Chidambaram 608002, Tamil Nadu, India
Hymenoptera Proleurocerus Bureshiella Pseudectroma key

Abstract

Three new species of Encyrtidae are described from material collected from the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, India—Bureshiella antennata sp. nov., Proleurocerus montanus sp. nov. and Pseudectroma annamalaicus sp. nov. Keys to the species of all the three genera are provided and Bureshiella Hoffer is reported for the first time from India.

 

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