Scientific name
Coccophagus sexvittatus Hayat
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae
Diagnosis
Female: Length: 1.33 mm. Head and thorax bright yellow-orange, with the following
parts brownish: occiput on sides of foramen, pronotum medially, anterior margin of mid lobe, scuto-scutellar suture, metanotum and propodeum; gaster whitish to yellowish with a brown cross band each on tergites 2-4, and a median brown spot each on tergites 5-7; tips of mandibles brown; antenna pale yellow with brown sensilla; wings hyaline; legs including coxae pale; bristles on scutellum brown.
Images
Adult, dorsal view
Adult female, dorsal view
Distribution
India: Karnataka; Madhya Pradesh (Hayat, 1998).
Hosts / Biology
A parasitoid of Rastrococcus iceryoides (Green) on mango (Hayat, 1998).
Reference
- Hayat, M. 1998. Aphelinidae of India (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): A taxonomic revision. Memoirs of Entomology International, Volume 13. Associated Publishers, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 416 p.
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