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Issue: Vol. 2970 No. 1: 19 Jul. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2970.1.3
Page range: 41–48
Abstract views: 197
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A new species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) closely related to T. chilonis Ishii from Pakistan

PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Murree road, Shamasabd, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Institute for Horticultural Sciences, Section Phytomedicine,Lentzeallee 55/57, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany
CAB International Regional Bioscience Centre, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea egg parasitoid taxonomy new species ITS-2

Abstract

A new species of Trichogramma Westwood (1833) (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) parasitizing eggs of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on tomato in Northern Punjab, Murree hills, Pakistan is described. The new species is closely related to T. chilonis Ishii, the most widely distributed species in Pakistan and India. Morphological characters, ITS-2 sequence differences and reproductive data are presented to distinguish T. siddiqi n. sp. from T. chilonis.

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