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Scientific nameAnagyrus brevicornis (Shamim & Shafee)
Taxonomic positionHymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae
DiagnosisFemale: Length 1.01-1.06mm. Body slightly dorsoventrally flattened; head orange with a dark mark connecting each eye to adjacent antennal torulus; scape white with a dark brown pattern on its outer face, inner face almost completely white except for dark brown border of ventral margin; pedicel whitish; F1 whitish with a slight dusky tinge; F2, F3, F6 and clava dark brown, F4 and F5 white; pronotum medially dark brown, its posterior margin white; mesoscutum and scutellum almost completely dark brown; sides and venter of thorax and legs whitish to pale yellow; fore wings hyaline but with a strong, very distinctive pattern of dark and pale setae; hind wings hyaline; gaster dorsally dark brown; scape broadened and flattened, about 2.5x as long as broad; all funicle segments subquadrate; ovipositor not exserted (Noyes and Hayat, 1984).
ImagesDistributionIndia: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka (Hayat, 2006).
Biology / HostsFerrisia virgata (Shamim & Shafee, 1986).
References
CreditsFactsheet prepared by Dr. A. Rameshkumar, Research associate, NPIB, NBAII.
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