2025-04-03
Revision of the genus Aulacocentrum Brues, 1922 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Macrocentrinae) from India with description of two new species and a key to the Indian species
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Biologia , Volume 2025
The Indian species of the genus Aulacocentrum Brues, 1922 are revised. Two new species, Aulacocentrum hunliensis Gupta sp. n. from Arunachal Pradesh (in north eastern region) and A. parotisae Gupta sp. n. from Karnataka (in southern region) are illustrated and described. Aulacocentrum parotisae sp. n., a solitary endoparasitoid, is reared from the caterpillars of Parotis sp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) feeding on Psydrax dicoccos Gaertn. (Rubiaceae) in Karnataka. Additionally, A. seticella van Achterberg and He, 1994 is first time reported from southern India and a key to the Indian species of Aulacocentrum is provided.
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Gupta, Ankita, van Achterberg, C., Ajaykumara, Kattigehallimath, Pattar, Rohit, Mogappa, Hemanth Kumar Hosautpathanahalli, & Sushil, Satya Nand. (2025). Revision of the genus Aulacocentrum Brues, 1922 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Macrocentrinae) from India with description of two new species and a key to the Indian species. Biologia, 2025. doi:10.1007/s11756-025-01926-3 |
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