Hayat Mohammad, Gupta Ankita, Selvaraj Krishnan
Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India.
Zootaxa. 2018 Nov 13;4521(2):258-264. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.6.
A new species of Ooencyrtus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), O. xenasteiae Hayat Gupta, sp. nov., is described. This species was reared from the pupae of a Xenasteia sp. (Diptera: Xenasteiidae), a sooty mould scavenger found associated with the recent invasive rugose spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from coastal Karnataka, India.
描述了一种新的恩蚜小蜂属(膜翅目:蚜小蜂科)昆虫,即 Xenasteiae 恩蚜小蜂(Ooencyrtus xenasteiae Hayat Gupta),新种。该物种是从 Xenasteia 属(双翅目:Xenasteiidae)的蛹中培育出来的,Xenasteia 属是一种与近期入侵的皱纹螺旋粉虱(Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin,半翅目:粉虱科)相关的煤烟霉菌清除者,在印度卡纳塔克邦沿海地区被发现。