Gupta Ankita, Soujanya P Lakshmi, VAN Achterberg Cornelis, Sekhar J C
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru-560024, Karnataka, India.
Zootaxa. 2020 Mar 11;4750(2):zootaxa.4750.2.13. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.13.
The parasitoid Coccygidium transcaspicum (Kokujev) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) was reared from fall armyworm or Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in maize fields in South India (Telangana) during 2019. It is the first report of a host for C. transcaspicum and the first report of C. transcaspicum as a parasitoid of S. frugiperda across the globe. The present study contains the first report from India and the Oriental region, provides morphological identification details of C. transcaspicum and comparison notes from its closely allied species C. melleum (Roman) which is basically an Afrotropical species.
2019年期间，在印度南部（特伦甘纳邦）的玉米田中，从草地贪夜蛾即草地夜蛾（J. E. 史密斯）（鳞翅目：夜蛾科）体内饲养出了寄生蜂跨里海科克寄蝇（科库耶夫）（膜翅目：茧蜂科：阿格寄蝇亚科）。这是关于跨里海科克寄蝇宿主的首次报道，也是该寄生蜂在全球范围内作为草地贪夜蛾寄生蜂的首次报道。本研究包含来自印度和东洋区的首次报道，提供了跨里海科克寄蝇的形态鉴定细节以及与其近缘种蜜色科克寄蝇（罗曼）的比较说明，蜜色科克寄蝇基本上是一种分布于非洲热带地区的物种。
