Crop Research

Web of Science
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 54
  • Issue: 3and4

Diversity of certain Chalcidoidea from three rice growing zones of Tamil Nadu, India

  • Author:
  • J. Alfred Daniel1,, K. Ramaraju1, S. Manickavasagam2, H. Sankararaman2, M. Ayyamperumal2, J. Gowri Prakash3
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 101 to 109

1Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003, India

2Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Entomology, Annamalai University, Chidambaram-608 002 (Tamil Nadu), India

3Department of Agricultural Entomology, Adhiparasakthi Agricultural College, Kalavai-632 505 (Tamil Nadu), India

Abstract

Surveys were conducted to explore the Aphelinidae, Encyrtidae, Eucharitidae and Torymidae (Chalcidoidea: Hymenoptera) fauna in rice ecosystems of Tamil Nadu during 2015–16 in three different rice growing zones viz., western zone, Cauvery delta zone and high rainfall zone. Aphelinus abdominalis, Eriaphytis orientalis and Marietta leopardina are the three species of Aphelinids collected in the present study and a total of 15 aphelinids were collected. Seventeen individuals that constitute six species of Encyrtidae viz., Anicetus ceroplastodis, Callipteroma sexguttata, Homalotylus sp., Homalotylus indicus, Ooencyrtus sp. and Prochiloneurus pulchellus were collected in the present study. Only one individual of Chalcura deprivata was collected under the family Eucharitidae. A total of 10 torymid individuals were collected under two species, namely, Chrysochalcissa indica and Podagrion opisthacanthum.

Keywords

Aphelinidae, diversity, encyrtidae, eucharitidae, rice ecosystem, torymidae