Ooencyrtus papilionis Ashmead (Encyrtidae)

Gupta, Ankita, Lokhande, Swapnil A. & Soman, Abhay, 2013, Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 3701 (2), pp. 277-290 : 287-289

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:56975B48-5F81-47FF-A8DC-F1ABE05EAAEC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5695922

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D487B2-7406-9D31-A4FD-C008FC2440EF

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ooencyrtus papilionis Ashmead (Encyrtidae)
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Ooencyrtus papilionis Ashmead (Encyrtidae) View in CoL from eggs of Bibasis jaina (Moore)

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The encyrtid wasp, Ooencyrtus papilionis , is the first ever representative of a parasitic wasp species to be associated with genus Bibasis on Hipatage benghalensis (L.). A detailed description of O. papilionis can be found in Huang & Noyes, 1996).

Brief diagnosis. Head and mesosoma brown; head with metallic tinge; scutellum bluish–green with apex metallic green; legs including coxae yellow; metasoma yellow with apical tergites brown, brown coloration more conspicuous laterally; antenna with proximal three flagellomeres transverse, flagellomeres 4–6 a little longer than broad; fronto-vertex one quarter of head width; scutellum with reticulate punctate sculpture anteriorly; ovipositor mildly exserted. Mandibles with a broad truncation and one tooth.

Material examined. One female and one male, INDIA, Nagala Block, SGNP, Thane District, Maharashtra, 30.viii.2012, emerged from eggs of Bibasis jaina (Moore) ( Lepidoptera : Hesperiidae ) on host plant Hiptage benghalensis (L.). coll. Swapnil & Abhay. Three females, sept. 2012, emerged from single egg of B. jaina , coll. Paresh V. Churi. All specimens deposited in National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII), Bangalore, India. Code. NBAII/Enc/Ooe/papi/30812.

Host Record. New host record from eggs of Bibasis jaina (Moore) ( Lepidoptera : Hesperiidae ) on host pant Hiptage benghalensis (L.). It has also been reported from other hesperiids, Erionata thrax and Hasora sp. (Noyes 2013) and from various lepidopteran eggs (Huang & Noyes, 1994).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

Genus

Ooencyrtus

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