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| Scientific name: | Coccophagus ceroplastae | |||||
| Author(s): | Howard | |||||
| Synonyms: | Aneristus ceroplastae Howard, Aneristus fumosipennis Girault and Dodd, Coccophagus diaspidis Agarwal, 1964 Coccophagus citri Agarwal, 1964 Coccophagus delhiensis Subba Rao and Rai | |||||
| 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 | Coccophagus | |||||
| Basis of record: | Repository - IMZCU | |||||
| Sex: | Female | |||||
| Host: | Coccus hesperidum on Psidium guajava (present study), Coccus viridis on Citrus sp. and on Thea sinensis; Ceroplastes sp. on Mangifera inndica (Hayat, 1998) and on Euphorbia sp. | |||||
| Distribution: |
Bangladesh (Ali, 1978; Bhuiya, et al. 1997), India, recorded from several Indian States, including Andaman & Nicobar Islands. (Cosmopolitan in the Old World tropics), Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Mauritius, Tonga and New Britain (Hayat, 1998); Malayasia (Chua, 1978); Sri Lanka (Hayat, 1998); Pakistan (Muzaffar and Ahmad, 1977); China (Sugonjaev and Ren Hui, 1993); Taiwan (Liao, et al. 1987) and Jamaica (Baltazar, 1966). | |||||
| References: |
Ali, M. 1978. A report on the wax scales Ceroplastes pseudoceriferus Green and Chloropulvinaria polygonata (Ckll.). (Homoptera: Coccidae) on mango and their natural enemies. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology. 6(1): 59-70. Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758 -1963). Pacific Insects Monograph 8:119. 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. Chua, T.H. 1978. The parasite complex of Saissetia nigra in Malaysia. Entomophaga 23(2):195 - 201. Hayat, M. 1998. Aphelinidae of India (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): a taxonomic revision. Memoirs on Entomology International, 13:162pp. Liao, D. X., Li, X. L., Pang. X. F. and Chen, T. L. 1987. Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea (1). Economic Insect Fauna of China. No 34:152. Muzaffar, N. and Ahmad, R. 1977, A note on Saissetia privigna (Hem.: Coccidae) in Pakistan and the breeding of its natural enemies. Entomophaga 22(1):45-46. Sugonjaev, E.S. and Ren Hui. 1993. Chalcids of the genus Coccophagus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of southeast China. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 72(1):198. |
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| Latest taxonomic scrutiny: | 2008-06-03 (yyyy-mm-dd) | |||||
