Parasitoids of some insects in the Andaman Islands

摘要

During the course of studies on the life histories of insects of the Andaman Islands we observed 38 species of hymenopterous parasitoids belonging to r5 families and one dipteran parasitoid of the family Tachinidae. Eight species of Braconidae, four species each of Scelionidae, Encyrtidae, and Ichneumonidae, 3 species each of Pteromalidae, Eulophidae and Eupelmidae, 2 species of Bethylidae, one species each of Elasmidae, Eurytomidae, Chalcididae, Ceraphronidae, Chrysididae, Torymidae, Eucharatidae and Tachinidae are recorded from these islands on different insect hosts. An undescribed Ooencyrtus sp. is being recorded from the eggs of the endemic subspecies Elymnias cottonh cottonis, Podagrion sp., hitherto recorded from mantid oothecae, is recordedon the larvae of two species of Lepidoptera for the first time.