Anagyrus kamali Moursi

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae

Female: Body stout and robust, head and mesosoma more or less orange, genae, mouth margin and interantennal prominence marked with dark brown; pronotum brown, anterior margin of mesoscutum and scutellum sometimes marked with brown. Antenna with scape black with a subapical white band, pedicel black, F1 basally dark brown to black, apically whitish, F2-F6 yellowish white with a few conspicuous dark setae on outer surface, appearing infuscate, club yellowish white; legs white, femora marked dusky. Antenna with scape broadened and flattened. Fore wing hyaline, with marginal and postmarginal veins together shorter than stigmal, extreme apex without marginal setae (from Noyes & Hayat, 1994).

 Female - Head and thorax, dorsal view
   Female - antenna
 Female - fore wing venation

Male: Head orange, dark brown on mouth margin, interantennal prominensce and ocellar area; scape white with a median black band; mesoscutum and scutellum dark brown, mesoscutum laterally orange; sides and venter of thorax orange. Forewing with marginal and postmarginal together shorter than stigmal (from Noyes & Hayat, 1994).

   Male antenna

     Adult female, dorsal and lateral view
   Adult male, dorsal and lateral view

India: Assam; Kerala; Karnataka; Tamil Nadu. Also distributed in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New Britain and Australia (Hayat, 2006).

Mainly collected on Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green); other hosts include Ferrisia virgata, Nipaecoccus viridis, Pseudococcus sp. (Hayat, 2006). Used in applied biological control programmes against hibiscus mealybug.