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Hymenopterous parasitoids associated with the bagworms Metisa plana and Mahasena corbetti (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) on oil palms in Peninsular Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Norman H. Kamarudin ,
Annette K. Walker ,
Mohd. Basri Wahid ,
John LaSalle  and
Andrew Polaszek
Norman H. Kamarudin
Affiliation:
Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Annette K. Walker*
Affiliation:
International Institute of Entomology, London, UK
Mohd. Basri Wahid
Affiliation:
Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
John LaSalle
Affiliation:
International Institute of Entomology, London, UK
Andrew Polaszek
Affiliation:
International Institute of Entomology, London, UK
*
A.K. Walker, International Institute of Entomology, 56 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5JR, UK.
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Abstract

In Peninsular Malaysia, 18 species of hymenpterous parasitoids were reared either from the oil palm bagworms, Metisa plana Walker and Mahasena corbetti Tams, or from their parasitoids. Both Metisa plana and Mahasena corbetti share the common parasitoids Goryphus bunoh Gauld, Aulosaphes psychidivorus Muesebeck, Brachymeria carinata Joseph, Narendran & Joy, Eupelmus catoxanthae (Ferrière), Eurytoma sp., Sympiesis sp., Tetrastichus sp., and Aphanogmus thylax Polaszek & Dessart. Other parasitoids are associated with only one of the bagworm species: Paraphylax varius (Walker), Dolichogenidea metesae (Nixon), Elasmus sp., Nesolynx flavipes Ashmead, Pediobius anomalus (Gahan), Pediobius imbreus (Walker) and Teleopterus sp. from M. plana; and B. lasus (Walker), B. lugubris (Walker) and P. elasmi Ashmead from Mahasena corbetti. A key to species is included and a table summarizing the host range and distribution records are listed from the Indo-Australasian region.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , August 1996 , pp. 423 - 439
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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