Anagyrus aquilonaris (Noyes and Hayat, 1984)

Rameshkumar, A., Poorani, J. & V, Naveen, 2015, Additions to the Encyrtidae and Mymaridae (Chalcidoidea) of India with new distribution and host records for some species, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 5216-5216 : 5216

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5216

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scientific name

Anagyrus aquilonaris (Noyes and Hayat, 1984)
status

 

Anagyrus aquilonaris (Noyes and Hayat, 1984)

Cremesina aquilonaris Noyes and Hayat 1984: 261-262.

Anagyrus aquilonaris : Noyes and Hayat 1994: 91-92.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Karnataka; municipality: Bangalore; locality: Attur ; verbatimElevation: 920m; verbatimCoordinates: N13°05' E77°00'; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Net sweep; eventDate: 26-10-2013; habitat: Weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Tamil Nadu; municipality: Thenkasi; locality: Alwarkuruchi ; verbatimElevation: 160 m; verbatimCoordinates: N08°47' E77°25'; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 18-02-2015; habitat: weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Meghalaya; county: Rhi-Bhoi; municipality: Umiam; locality: ICAR complex ; verbatimElevation: 603 m; verbatimCoordinates: N25°49' E91°52'; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 12-06-2013; habitat: grassy/weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Naveen V; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Meghalaya; county: Rhi-Bhoi; municipality: Umiam; locality: ICAR complex ; verbatimElevation: 603 m; verbatimCoordinates: N25°49' E91°52'; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 10-06-2013; habitat: grassy/weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Arunachal Pradesh; county: East Siang; municipality: Pasighat; locality: College of Horticulture and Forestry campus ; verbatimElevation: 153m; verbatimCoordinates: N28°07' E950; Identification: identifiedBy: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 12-11-2014; habitat: grassy/weedy field; Record Level: institutionID: National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; institutionCode: NBAIR

Diagnosis

Nominate form of A. aquilonaris with a characteristic reddish coloration more or less throughout dorsal side (Fig. 5a), antenna with F1, F6 and clava brown, F2-F5 generally white (Karnataka). The following variants recorded from different parts of India: head and mesosoma orange-red, metasoma dark brown, wing infuscate to a greater degree (Fig. 5b) (Tamil Nadu); head, mesosoma and metasoma deeper orange-reddish brown, antenna with F1 black, F2 white with slight infuscation, F3 pale brown, F4 black (Fig. 5c) (Arunachal Pradesh); dorsal side slightly darker reddish brown, antenna with F1 black, F2-F3 white, all the remaining segments black (Fig. 5d) (from Meghalaya).

Distribution

Fairly widely distributed in India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Universal Chalcidoidea Database; Hayat 2006). Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya (new record).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

Genus

Anagyrus