Scientific name
Propicroscytus mirificus (Girault, 1915)
Taxonomic position
Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
Diagnosis
Image
Female - lateral view
Distribution
India: Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh.
Biology / Hosts
Parasitic, sometimes secondary of all gall midges in rice and stems of some other grasses, as Paspalidium and Imparata cylindrica (Sureshan, 2003). This species normally attacks larvae of Pachydiplosis oryzae (Wood - Mason) (Xiqao and Huang, 2000).
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.
- Xiqao Hui and Huang Da-Wei, 2000. A revision of genus Propicroscytus szelenyi from China (Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 25(4): 438 - 441.
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