New findings of the genera Townesilitus Haeselbarth & Loan, 1983 and Peristenus Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) in India

Farooq, Fiza; Mir, Altaf Hussain; Gupta, Ankita

doi:10.48311/jibs.12.01.193

New findings of the genera Townesilitus Haeselbarth & Loan, 1983 and Peristenus Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) in India

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Fiza Farooq ¹

Altaf Hussain Mir ¹

Ankita Gupta ²

¹ Entomology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar-190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India

² ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), P.B. No 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore-560024, Karnataka, India

10.48311/jibs.12.01.193

Abstract

In the present study, genus, Townesilitus Haeselbarth & Loan, 1983, represented with a single species, T. bicolor (Wesmael, 1835), and two species of the genus Peristenus Foerster, 1862, P. angifemoralis van Achterberg & Guerrero, 2003, and P. picipes (Curtis, 1833) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) were reported for the first time from India. Specimens of T. bicolor, were collected from the Ganderbal district, P. angifemoralis, from the Anantnag district, and P. picipes, from the Pulwama and Ganderbal districts of the Kashmir valley, India. The geographical distribution and taxonomic features of all three taxa are presented. Additionally, a revised identification key for the Indian Peristenus species is also provided.

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