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| Scientific name: | Aenasius advena | |||||
| Author(s): | Compere | |||||
| Synonyms: |
Aenasius advena Compere, 1937 Aenasius ianthinus Compere, 1937 Pseudanasius clavus Hayat, Alam & Agarwal, 1975 |
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| Common names: |
Parasitic wasp (English), Porojibee boltaa (Bangla) |
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| Classification: | Kingdom | Animalia | ||||
| Phylum | Arthropoda | |||||
| Class | Insecta | |||||
| Subclass | Pterygota | |||||
| Superorder | - | |||||
| Order | Hymenoptera | |||||
| Superfamily | Chalcidoidea | |||||
| Family | Aphelinidae | |||||
| Genus | Aenasius | |||||
| Basis of record: | Repository - IMZCU | |||||
| Sex: | Female | |||||
| Host: | Aenasius advena has been recorded as a parasitoid of Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell) infesting a variety of plants (Bennett, 1957; Compere, 1937; Kerrich, 1967; DeBach & Warner, 1969; Shafee et al., 1975; Hayat, et al., 1975; Prinsloo & Annecke, 1979; De San | |||||
| Distribution: |
This is a circumtropical species and is found throughout most of the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Noyes, 1995). | |||||
| References: |
Bennett, F. D. 1957. Trinidad Encyrtidae II. Some additional mealybug parasites. Canadian Entomologist 89: 569 -572. Compere, H. 1937. The species of Aenasius, encyrtid parasites of mealybugs. Proceedings of the Hawaiin Entomological Society. 9: 383 404. De Santis, L. 1980, Catalogo de los Himenopteros Brasilenos de la serie Parasitica incluyendo Bethyloidea :395pp Editora da Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba. Hayat, M., Alam, M. and Agarwal, M. M. 1975. Taxonomic survey of encyrtid parasites (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in India. Aligarh Muslim University Publication, Zoological Series on Indian Insect Types 9:iii+112pp. Kerrich, G. J. 1967. On the classification of the anagyrine Encyrtidae, with a revision of some of the genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 20: 143 250. Noyes, J. S. 1995. Encyrtidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): The genus Aenasius Walker, parasitoids of mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Entomology 64: 117 163. Prinsloo, G. L. and Annecke, D. P. 1979. A key to the genera of Encyrtidae from the Ethiopian region, with descripitions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 42(2): 349-382. Shafee, S. A., Alam, M. and Agarwal, M. M. 1975. Taxonomic survey of encyrtid parasites (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in India. Aligarh Muslim University Publication, Zoological Series on Indian Insect Types. 10: iii + 125pp. |
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| Latest taxonomic scrutiny: | 2008-06-19 (yyyy-mm-dd) | |||||
