Species details
Scientific name: Encarsia smithi
Author(s): Silvestri
Synonyms: Prospaltella smithi Silvestri, 1926 Encarsia smithi (Silvestri): Viggiani & Mazzone, 1979.
Common names: Parasitic wasp (English), Porojibee boltaa (Bangla)
Classification: Kingdom Animalia  
  Phylum Arthropoda  
  Class Insecta  
  Subclass Pterygota  
  Superorder -  
  Order Hymenoptera  
  Superfamily Chalcidoidea  
  Family Aphelinidae  
  Genus Encarsia  
Basis of record: Repository - IMZCU
Sex: Female
Host: Aleurocanthus woglumi (present study); A. hussini; Bemisia tabaci, ex Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Hayat, 1998).
Distribution:
Bangladesh (Bhuiya, et al., 1997); India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico (Hayat, 1988).
References:
Bhuiya, B. A, Chowdhury, S. H. and Kabir, S. M. H. 1997. An annotated list of chalcid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of coccoidea (Homoptera) on guava in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology. 25(1): 53-64.

Hayat, M. 1998. Aphelinidae of India(Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): a taxonomic revision. Memoirs on Entomology International, 13:162pp.
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Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 2008-06-03 (yyyy-mm-dd)