Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 87
  • Issue: 2

Description of a New Species of Anagyrini (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), with some Records from India

  • Author:
  • Ramsha Ashraf1, Shahid Bin Zeya1,*, G A Kavya Yadav2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Published Online: Sep 25, 2025
  • Page Number: 370 to 377

1Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh202002, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Keladi Shivapa Nayaka University of Agricultural And Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga577204, Karnataka, India

*Email: drsbz1966@gmail.com (corresponding author)

Online Published on 25 September, 2025.

Abstract

One new species of Anagyrini (Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae) Gyranusoidea Vasantharaji Zeya, Ashraf and Yadav, sp. nov., is described from the specimens reared from the insect host Planococcus Iilacinus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) infesting Ficus carica plantations in the Indian State of Karnataka. An identification key to Gyranusoidea Compere is also given. Five species viz., are newly recorded from the Indian states noted in parentheses: Anagyrus diversicornis (Howard) (Karnataka), Caenohomalopodatahai Fatima and Zeya (Uttar Pradesh), Cheiloneurus nankingensis Li and Xu (Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka), Sakencyrtus mirus Hayat (Uttarakhand) and S. albiclavus Hayat (Uttarakhand)

Keywords

Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae, New species, Records, Key to species, India, New records, Gyranusoidea vasantharaji sp. nov., Planococcus Iilacinus, Ficus carica, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand