Coagerus bouceki Noyes and Hayat

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Encyrtinae

Female: Length 0.67-.97 mm. Head black dorsally with dull greenish and brassy reflections, around mouth and antennal toruli slightly purplish; antennal torulus, basal half or so of scape and pedicel dark brown, remainder of antenna yellow, apex of clava indistinctly fuscous; pronotum purplish brown, mesoscutum shining metallic green, along anterior and posterior margins a little purplish; tegulae brown; scutellum matt, black, apical one-fifth or so and extreme sides polished and metallic green; mesopleurum purplish brown, slightly shiny with some brassy, green and bluish reflections; propodeum dark purple-brown laterally on outer face with distinct bluish hue; legs white to yellow with apical one-third of mid femur, extreme base and a narrow sub-basal band on mid tibia and extreme apex of hind femur dark brown; gaster with venter and basal area dorsally yellow; apex dorsally continuing along sides to base dark purplish brown; exserted part of gonostyli dark brown, apices yellowish (Noyes and Hayat, 1984).

 Adult - lateral view

India: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (Hayat, 2006).

Unknown.

Factsheet prepared by Dr. A. Rameshkumar, Research associate, NPIB, NBAII.