Scientific name

Anisopteromalus calandrae (Howard, 1881)

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae

Diagnosis

Body length 3.0 mm. Head and mesosoma bluish black; metasoma brownish black with green metallic shine; coxae concolorous with mesosoma; femora brown except distal part and remainder of legs testaceous. Head finely reticulate; POL 1.6x OOL; antennae with scape not reaching median ocellus; pronotal collar with sharp edge, not carinate. Metasoma elongate, ovate, longer than head mesosoma combined.

 Antenna
 Forewing
 Mesosoma
 Metasoma

Image

 Female - lateral view

Distribution

Cosmopoliton. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, West Bengal.

Biology / Hosts

Recorded hosts are Sitophilus sp., Sitophilus oryzae, Sitophilus granarius, Tribolium castaneum, Athesapeuta cyperi, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Pempheruls affinis, Rhizopertha dominica, Cyperus rotundus, Callosobruchus sp. (Sureshan, 2003).

References

  • 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.