Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

Sarfrazul Islam Kazmi ¹, Mohammad Hayat ²

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore-700053, Kolkata, IN
2 Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, IN

Abstract

Species of the genus Copidosoma Ratzeburg, so far as their biology is known, are polyembryonic parasitoids of lepidopterous larvae. From a single parasitoid egg laid in the body of the host larva, a large number, sometimes exceeding a thousand, adult parasitoids are produced.

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