Journal of Biological Control
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue: 4

First record of Brachymeria jambolana Gahan (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) as a pupal parasitoid of Graphium doson (C. & R. Felder) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)

  • Author:
  • Ankita Gupta
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 363 to 365

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore, 560 024, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Brachymeria jambolana Gahan is recorded for the first time from pupae of Graphium doson (C. & R. Felder) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) near Bangalore, Karnataka. B. jambolana is also a new distribution record from Karnataka. Brief diagnostic details of the parasitoid and different stages of host are given.

Keywords

Brachymeria jambolana, pupal parasitoid, Graphium doson