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Micranisa Walker

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Otitesellinae)

Micranisa Walker 1875. Type species: Idarnes pteromaloides Walker 1871.

 

Micranisa aereicorpus Girault,1915

 

Micranisa amplissima Abdurahiman & Joseph,1975

 

Micranisa ashtamudiensis Priyadarsanan, 2000

 

Micranisa claviscapa Joseph,1957

 

Micranisa corneri Wiebes,1967

 

Micranisa degastris Chen,1999

 

Micranisa luzonensis Wiebes,1967

 

Micranisa pteromaloides Walker,1871

Micranisa ralianga Mathew & Balakrishnan, 1981

Micranisa sp.

 

Micranisa yashiroi Ishii,1934

Distribution

 

Micranisa_map

Australia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, U.S.A.

Biology

Host: Eupristina delhiensis (Agaoninae)

Reference

Walker, F. 1871. Part 4. Chalcididae, Leucospidae, Agaonidae, Perilampidae, Ormyridae, Encyrtidae. Notes on Chalcidiae 55-70. London

Walker, F. 1875. Descriptions of new genera and species of parasites, belonging to the families Proctotrupidae and Chalcididae, which attack insects destructive to the fig in India. Entomologist 8: 15-18.

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