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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 3: 9 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.6
Page range: 402-427
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Parasitoid complex of doryctine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaciae) coleopteran complex (Coleoptera) with description of two new species from India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Post Bag No. 2491; H. A. Farm Post; Bellary Road; Hebbal; Bangalore 560 024; Karnataka; India
Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Darwinweg 2; 2333 CR Leiden; the Netherlands
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Post Bag No. 2491; H. A. Farm Post; Bellary Road; Hebbal; Bangalore 560 024; Karnataka; India
Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; UK
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Post Bag No. 2491; H. A. Farm Post; Bellary Road; Hebbal; Bangalore 560 024; Karnataka; India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Post Bag No. 2491; H. A. Farm Post; Bellary Road; Hebbal; Bangalore 560 024; Karnataka; India
Hymenoptera wasps Leluthia pongamiacola Sycosoter ordinarius

Abstract

Two doryctine species, viz., Leluthia pongamiacola Gupta & Belokobylskij, sp. nov. and Sycosoter ordinarius Gupta & Belokobylskij, sp. nov., are described from southern India, reared from coleopteran-infested logs of Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre (Fabaceae). Additionally, Ipodoryctes signipennis (Walker, 1860), reared from the same infested logs, is redescribed. A key to the Indian species of the genus Leluthia is suggested. Biological notes of the coleopteran complex are provided.

 

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