Scientific name

Anagyrus saccharicola Timberlake

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae

Diagnosis

Female: Length 1.22-1.75mm. Body flattened and elongate; head and thorax orange with dusky areas on occiput and genae, mouth margin dark brown; scutellum with a median dark brown stripe; gaster dark brown; scape on outer face white with dorsal and ventral margins mostly dark brown; pedicel basally dark brown; flagellum with first segment dark brown, remainder white; legs whitish with some brown marking; wings hyaline; scape about twice as long as broad; fore wing nearly 2.5x as long as broad; stigmal vein as long as marginal; metasoma about as long as head and mesosoma combined; ovipositor hardly exserted.

head Head

Image

adult Adult female - dorsal view

Distribution

India: Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu (Noyes, 2013; Hayat, 2006).

Hosts / Biology

Saccharicoccus sacchari (Timberlake, 1932; Mani, 1939; Narayanan et al., 1957; Hayat, 1979); Ripersia sacchari (Ahmad, 1942).

References

  • Ahmad, T. 1942. Report of the second Entomologist (Dipterist) in Charge of the Scheme for research on insect pests of sugarcane. Scientific Report of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, for 1940-41: 64-65.
  • Hayat, M. 1979. Indian species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) - I. Oriental Insects, 13: 167-188.
  • Hayat, M. 2006. Indian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). viii +496pp. Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
  • Narayanan, E.S., Subba Rao, B.R. and Mathur, R.B. 1957. Some known and new records of parasites of sugarcane scale insects from India. Indian Journal of Entomology, 19: 144-146.
  • Noyes, J.S. 2012. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html (accessed 03rd May, 2013).
  • Noyes, J.S. and Hayat, M. 1994. Oriental mealybug parasitoids of the Anagyrini (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). CAB International, Wallingford. Oxon. Viii+554p.
  • Timberlake, P.H. 1932. Three new parasitic Hymenoptera from the Indo-Malayan region. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 8: 153-162.