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Issue: Vol. 4237 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.4
Page range: 78–90
Abstract views: 107
PDF downloaded: 2

Biology and description of Megaprosternum cleonarovorum sp. nov. Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India 

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru, 560 024, Karnataka, India.
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru, 560 024, Karnataka, India.
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Fernando Ferrari 514, Goiabeiras, 29075-910, Vitória ES Brazil.
Hymenoptera Scleroderminae parasitoid host Ixora

Abstract

Megaprosternum Azevedo (Bethylidae: Scleroderminae) is newly recorded from the Oriental region, and M. cleonarovorum Gupta & Azevedo sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Southern India as a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on the host plant Ixora coccinea L. (Rubiacae). This is the first ever documentation of the biology of Megaprosternum Azevedo.

 

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