Scientific name

Microterys agaeus Hayat

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Encyrtinae

Diagnosis

Female: Length 1.90mm. Head pale brownish yellow; thorax brownish yellow; sides of mesoscutum yellowish; tegulae yellowish white; prepectus pale yellow; mesopleuron pale orange yellow; gaster yellowish brown; pedicel, F1-3 yellow brown, in upper half dark brown; F4-6 white; clava black; fore wing very lightly infuscate from base, the infuscation becoming paler towards apex and with a single curved hyaline band just distad of venation; hind wing hyaline; legs brownish yellow with tibiae yellowish.

Image

on coconut Adult - dorsal view

Distribution

India: Karnataka (Hayat et al., 2003 & Noyes, 2013)

Biology and hosts

Inglisia bivalvata on sandalwood (Hayat et al., 2003).

References

  • Hayat, M. 2006. Indian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). viii +496pp. Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
  • Hayat, M., Narendran, T.C., Remadevi, O.K. and Manikandan, S. 2003. Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea; Ceraphronoidea) reared mainly from Coccoidea (Homoptera) attacking sandalwood, Santalum album L. Oriental Insects, 37: 309-334.
  • Noyes, J.S. 2012 Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html (accessed 03rd May, 2013).