Parallorhogas pallidiceps (Perkins)

Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconida

Female: Head, pedicel and scape of antenna and all pairs of legs reddish brown; mesosoma dark pitchy brown to black; metasoma black; ovipositor basally reddish brown, apically darker; wings with dark brown veins.

Male: Head, mesosoma and legs more or less yellowish to reddish brown, mesosoma slightly darker than head. Antenna yellowish brown, apically slightly darker.

   Adult female, dorsal view
   Adult male, dorsal view

India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; South Pacific; Fiji; New Zealand; Hawaii.

This species is a common parasitoid of larvae of cerambycid beetles (Coleoptera). Attempts are being made to use it in the augmentative biological control of the coffee white stem borer, Xylotrechus quadripes Chevrolat, in South India.