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Records of Elasmus Species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) from Different States of India with Thirteen New State Records


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The present study deals with 19 species of the genus Elasmus Westwood, 1833 collected from different parts of India. Out of these recorded species, ten species are being recorded first time from the seven different states of India, such as Andaman Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, amounting to thirteen new state records. All these recorded species are presented here with host specificity and geographical distribution.

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Distribution, Elasmini, Host, New Records.
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Farmanur Rahman Khan
Department of Biology, Deanship of Educational Sciences, Qassim University, Al Qassim, Buraidah, 51452, Saudi Arabia

Abstract


The present study deals with 19 species of the genus Elasmus Westwood, 1833 collected from different parts of India. Out of these recorded species, ten species are being recorded first time from the seven different states of India, such as Andaman Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, amounting to thirteen new state records. All these recorded species are presented here with host specificity and geographical distribution.

Keywords


Distribution, Elasmini, Host, New Records.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv120%2Fi2%2F2020%2F150318