Scientific name

Proleurocerus litoralis Hayat & Kazmi

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Encyrtinae

Diagnosis

Female: Length 1.3mm. Body dark brown; frontovertex, especially the large punctures and scrobes intensely greenish; thoracic dorsum mainly blue-green with some violet to bronzy luster; gaster with a bronzy luster; antenna with radicle, scape except apex, pedicel, F1-3 and partly F4 and clava dark brown; rest of antenna nearly white; fore wing 2.2x as long as broad and hind wing 3.7x as long as broad; fore wing in distal two thirds infuscate with its proximal margin rounded; basal third lightly infuscate but this infuscation separated from the distal rounded margin of infuscation by a subhyaline area; disc with two distinct pale areas, a streak adjacent to postmarginal and stigmal veins and a transverse strip in about posterior third; hind wings hyaline; legs with coxae dark brown, rest brownish to infuscate brown (Hayat and Kazmi, 1996).

Atenna Antenna
wing Wing

Images

Adult  Adult  Adult  Adult Adult dorsal & lateral view

Distribution

India: Kerala (Hayat, 2006).

References

  • Hayat, M. 2006. Indian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). viii +496pp. Published by M. Hayat, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
  • Hayat, M. and Kazmi, S. I. 1996. The species of Proleurocerus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from India. Shashpa, 3 (1): 19-20.

Credits

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