HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITOIDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BAGWORMS METISA-PLANA AND MAHASENA-CORBETTI (LEPIDOPTERA, PSYCHIDAE) ON OIL PALMS IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

In Peninsular Malaysia, 18 species of hymenopterous parasitoids were r eared either from the oil palm bagworms, Metisa plana Walker and Mahas ena corbetti Tams, or from their parasitoids. Both Metisa plana and Ma hasena corbetti share the common parasitoids Goryphus bunoh Gauld, Aul osaphes psychidivorus Muesebeck, Brachymeria carinata Joseph, Narendra n & Joy, Eupelmus catoxanthae (Ferriere), Eurytoma sp., Sympiesis sp., Tetrastichus sp., and Aphanogmus thylax Polaszek & Dessart. Other par asitoids are associated with only one of the bagworm species: Paraphyl ax varius (Walker), Dolichogenidea metesae (Nixon), Elasmus sp., Nesol ynx flavipes Ashmead, Pediobius anomalus (Gahan), Pediobius imbreus (W alker) and Teleopterus sp. from M. plana; and B. lasus (Walker), B. lu gubris (Walker) and P. elasmi Ashmead from Mahasena coubetti. A key to species is included and a table summarizing the host range and distri bution records are listed from the Indo-Australasian region.