Journal Title
Title of Journal: Syst Parasitol
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Abbravation: Systematic Parasitology
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Ankita Gupta Sandesh M Gawas Ravindra Bhambure
Publish Date: 2015/10/07
Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-240
Abstract
In comprehensive rearing of butterflies from Goa India an interesting parasitoid complex of wasps and tachinid flies was found Two new species of parasitic wasps are described and illustrated Tetrastichus thetisae n sp Hymenoptera Eulophidae a gregarious parasitoid reared from the pupa of Curetis thetis Drury Lepidoptera Lycaenidae on the host plant Derris sp and Sympiesis thyrsisae n sp Hymenoptera Eulophidae a gregarious parasitoid reared from the caterpillar of Gangara thyrsis Fabricius Lepidoptera Hesperiidae on the host plant Cocos nucifera L Additionally the following hostparasitoid associations are recorded Amblypodia anita Hewitson Lepidoptera Lycaenidae with Parapanteles sp Hymenoptera Braconidae Coladenia indrani Moore Lepidoptera Hesperiidae with Sympiesis sp Hymenoptera Eulophidae Danaus chrysippus L Lepidoptera Nymphalidae with Sturmia convergens Wiedemann Diptera Tachinidae Idea malabarica Moore Lepidoptera Nymphalidae with Brachymeria sp Hymenoptera Chalcididae and Palexorista sp Diptera Tachinidae Notocrypta curvifascia Felder Felder Lepidoptera Hesperiidae with Cotesia erionotae Wilkinson Hymenoptera Braconidae and Rapala sp Lepidoptera Lycaenidae with an inominate species close to Aplomya spp Diptera Tachinidae This discovery is the first record of Tetrastichus as parasitoid of Curetis thetis Sympiesis as parasitoid of Gangara thyrsis and Coladenia indrani Brachymeria and Palexorista as parasitoids of Idea malabarica and Cotesia erionotae as parasitoid of Notocrypta curvifascia Data on habitat brief diagnoses and host records for all parasitoids are providedAG thanks the Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICAR and Dr Abraham Verghese Director ICARNBAIR for research encouragement and for providing necessary facilities Taxonomic studies were undertaken under the Network project on Insect Biosystematics funded by ICAR Tachinid identification aid from Dr Nigel Wyatt NHM London and Dr C A Viraktamath UASBangalore India is kindly acknowledged
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- Dramatic phenotypic plasticity within species of Siphomutabilus n. g. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from Indo-Pacific caesionines (Perciformes: Lutjanidae)
- Redescriptions of species of Tetrarhynchobothrium Diesing, 1850 and Didymorhynchus Beveridge & Campbell, 1988 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the description of Zygorhynchus borneensis n. sp.
- Myrmeconema neotropicum n. g., n. sp., a new tetradonematid nematode parasitising South American populations of Cephalotes atratus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with the discovery of an apparent parasite-induced host morph
- Etude morphologique de Syphatineria pearsi (Baylis, 1928) (Oxyuridae, Nematoda)
- Four New Species of the Feather Mite Genus Vanginyssus Mironov, 2001 (Astigmata: Pteronyssidae) from the Vangas (Passeriformes: Vangidae) in Madagascar
- Porrocaecum parvum n. sp. and P. reticulatum (Linstow, 1899) (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) from birds in China
- Parasitic copepods from two species of commercial fishes collected off Iraq, with description of Hatschekia shari n. sp.
- Two new species of Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from the Persian Gulf
- Descriptions of Philometra aenei n. sp. and P . tunisiensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Philometridae) from Epinephelus spp. off Tunisia confirm a high degree of host specificity of gonad-infecting species of Philometra Costa, 1845 in groupers (Serranidae)
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