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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 3: 5 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.8
Page range: 425–430
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Acanthormius (Braconidae: Lysiterminae) reared as a gregarious parasitoid of psychid caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P. B. No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560 024, India
Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, BKK 10330, Thailand
Lepidoptera Lysiterminae larval parasitoid Psychidae Lysitermus host records

Abstract

Acanthormius indicus Gupta & Quicke sp. nov. is described and illustrated. It is a gregarious larval parasitoid of an unidentified bagworm moth caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from southern India. The biology and host associations of members of subfamily Lysiterminae are also discussed.

 

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