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Records of Some Species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from India, with Description of a New Species


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1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore-700053, Kolkata, India
2 Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, India
 

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Species of the genus Copidosoma Ratzeburg, so far as their biology is known, are polyembryonic parasitoids of lepidopterous larvae. From a single parasitoid egg laid in the body of the host larva, a large number, sometimes exceeding a thousand, adult parasitoids are produced.
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  • Records of Some Species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from India, with Description of a New Species

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Sarfrazul Islam Kazmi
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore-700053, Kolkata, India
Mohammad Hayat
Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, India

Abstract


Species of the genus Copidosoma Ratzeburg, so far as their biology is known, are polyembryonic parasitoids of lepidopterous larvae. From a single parasitoid egg laid in the body of the host larva, a large number, sometimes exceeding a thousand, adult parasitoids are produced.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v112i1.169162