PARASITOID WASP                                       

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Context: A new genus of Braconid wasp has been named ‘Atree’, after the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a leading research institution and environmental think tank based in Bengaluru.

Atree rajathae

• It is a new species of wasp, it is a parasitoid wasp.
  • parasitoids are the most important natural enemies of other insects, and humans exploit this behaviour for the biological control of crop pests.
• The new genus belongs to the tribe Diospilini of subfamily Brachistinae, which are mostly distributed in the Palaearctic region.
• Atree rajathae is the first report of the tribe Diosplini from India.

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/new-genus-of-parasitoid-wasp-dedicated-to-atree/article65279781.ece