Gupta Ankita, Rajeshwari S K, Azevedo Celso O
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru, 560 024, Karnataka, India..
Zootaxa. 2017 Feb 26;4237(1):zootaxa.4237.1.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.4.
Megaprosternum Azevedo (Bethylidae: Scleroderminae) is newly recorded from the Oriental region, and M. cleonarovorum Gupta & Azevedo sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Southern India as a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on the host plant Ixora coccinea L. (Rubiacae). This is the first ever documentation of the biology of Megaprosternum Azevedo.
巨前胸甲阿泽维多(Bethylidae科:Scleroderminae亚科)首次在东洋区被记录,新物种克氏巨前胸甲Gupta & Azevedo被描述并绘图,它发现于印度南部,是双色Cleonaria(鞘翅目:天牛科)的群居幼虫体外寄生蜂,寄主植物为龙船花(茜草科)。这是对巨前胸甲阿泽维多生物学的首次记录。