Scientific name

Agiommatus paria (Motschulsky, 1863)

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae

Diagnosis

Body length 2.5 mm. Head and mesosoma bright metallic greenish blue. Antennae testaceous. Legs entirely pale yellow except bases of fore and hind coxae brown. Head and scutellum finely reticulate posteriorly. Metasoma oval, little longer then mesosoma; yellowish brown dorsally with two yellowish transverse stripes, first stripe broad covering T2 posteriorly and T3 anteriorly; almost yellow ventrally; T4 large.

 Forewing
 Mesosoma
 Metasoma

Image

 Female - lateral view

Distribution

India: Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka.

Biology / Hosts

Eggs of Acherontia stynx (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae).

References

  • Motschulsky, V. de 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'Ile Ceylon (Suite). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody (Otdel Biologicheskiy) 36(3): 3, 63.
  • Noyes, J.S. 2012. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
  • Sureshan, P.M. 2003. Pteromalinae (Pteromalidae: Chalcidoidea: Hymenoptera) of Indian subcontinent. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 205: iii+170pp.