Scientific name

Myiocnema comperei Ashmead

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eriaporidae

Diagnosis

Female: Length 1.2mm. Head and thorax above aeneous black; sides of thorax, coxae and femora blue-black; antennae and tegulae brown; knees of middle legs, anterior tibiae and all tarsi, except terminal joints, yellowish; tibial spurs white; middle and hind tibiae fuscous; hind tibiae in both sexes armed with stiff black bristles; wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous discoidal band below marginal vein; antenna 8-segmented, clava 2-segmented.

forewing Forewing
thorax  leg Thorax, Leg

Images

dorsal view  dorsal view Adult - dorsal view
lateral view Adult - lateral view

Distribution

India: Haryana (Ram et al., 2011).

Biology / Hosts

Aleyrodes sp. (Aleyrodidae); Aphis sacchari (Aphididae); Coccus sp., C. viridis, Parasaissetia nigra, Saissetia oleae (Coccidae); Eriococcus coriaceus(Eriococcidae); Kermes acacia (Kermesidae); Planococcus citri (Pseudococcidae) (Noyes, 2013).

References

  • Noyes, J. S. 2013. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html (accessed 03rd May, 2013).
  • Ram, P., Vijaya., Saini, R. K. and Khokhar, S. 2011. Relative abundance of Hymenopterous parasitoids of mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley in Haryana. Journal of Insect Science, 24(2): 195-198.

Credits

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