An Insight in the Reproductive Biology of Therophilus javanus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, and Agathidinae), a Potential Biological Control Agent against the Legume Pod Borer (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)

Figure 1

Schematic representation of the ovariole of Therophilus javanus showing differentiated oocyte and accompanying nurse cells (trophocytes) within the ovariole. Immature eggs recorded in our enumeration are large individual egg chambers (follicle) located in the vitellarium whose oocyte displayed an ovoid form and had a slender tapering stalk at their posterior end in solid black color, and mature eggs recorded are large individual egg chambers (egg) of ovoid form that had a slender tapering stalk at their posterior end in black striped color.