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First Report of Encarsia colima Myartseva from India and Other Distributional Records of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

                                An attempt was made to survey the aphelinid parasitoid fauna of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India from December, 2008 to January, 2011 which resulted in the recovery of 15 genera and 30 species of aphelinids of which one and two genera and three and 18 species are new distributional records for Kerala and Tamil Nadu respectively. Encarsia colima Myartseva is reported for the first time from India.

Key words : Survey, Aphelinidae, parasitoids, distributional record, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, India

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