Journal of Biological Control
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue: 2

A new genus and species of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) parasitic on Ghoon borers of Bamboo in Karnataka (India)

  • Author:
  • T. C. Narendran, O. K. Remadevi1, Raja Muthukrishnan1, C. Abdullatheef1
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 247 to 253

1Institute of Wood Science & Technology, Bangalore, 560 003, Karnataka, India. E-mail: drtcnarendran@yahoo.com

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Calicut, 673 635, Kerala, India.

Abstract

Cyrtophagoides ghooubori Narcndran gen. & sp. nov. is described as a parasitoid of the Ghoon borer, Dinoderus sp., of Bamboo in Karnataka, India and compared to related genera. Heydonia indica Narcndran (Pteromalidae) is newly reported from the tunnels of Dinoderus sp. and Dendrocalamus strictus (Rosch,) (Pteromalidae) is newly reported from India.

Keywords

Cyrtophagoides gliooubori, Heydonia, Dinoderus, Dendrocalamus