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Scientific nameAnagyrus diversicornis (Howard)
Taxonomic positionHymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae
DiagnosisFemale: Length 0.87-1.55 mm. Body moderately slender, slightly flattened dorsoventrally. Head and thorax blackish with a slight sheen; scape testaceous yellow basally and whitish apically with an obscure brown band in median one-third; pedicel and flagellum dark brown with F2 whitish and apical two segments of clava yellow; all coxae blackish; wings completely hyaline; scape subcylindrical, a little over 5x as long as broad; clava with apex more or less rounded (Noyes, 2000).
Head and thorax, dorsal view ImagesDistributionIndia: Tamil Nadu (Hayat, 2006).
Hosts / BiologyIndet. Coccids on Annona squamosa and pseudococcid on Solanum nigrum (Manickavasagam et al., 2001); Phenacoccus gossypii, P. herreni, P. manihoti (Noyes, 2013).
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CreditsFactsheet prepared by Dr. A. Rameshkumar, Research associate, NPIB, NBAIR.
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