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

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  • Farmanur Rahman Khan
     Department of Biology, Deanship of Educational Sciences, Qassim University, Al Qassim, Buraidah, 51452

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i2/2020/150318

Keywords:

Distribution, Elasmini, Host, New Records.

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.

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Farmanur Rahman Khan, Department of Biology, Deanship of Educational Sciences, Qassim University, Al Qassim, Buraidah, 51452

Assistant Professor Department of Biology, Deanship of Educational Services, Qassim University, Buraidah, 51452 P. O. Box: 6666 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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2020-06-30

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Khan, F. R. (2020). Records of <I>Elasmus</I> Species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) from Different States of India with Thirteen New State Records. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 120(2), 123–131. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i2/2020/150318

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Volume 120, Issue 2, 2020

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