Gahaniella Timberlake 1926

Zuparko, Robert L., 2015, Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Zootaxa 4017 (1), pp. 1-126 : 29-30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4017.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BBFC3D93-6A7E-4862-84EF-021ADE2F4B3A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6116933

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87E4-FF98-4346-FF02-C21B8B7AFDAC

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Plazi

scientific name

Gahaniella Timberlake 1926
status

 

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Hosts. Primary or hyperparasitoid of Hemiptera : Asterolecaniidae , Coccidae , Ortheziidae , Pseudococcidae californica Timberlake 1926: 26

Type. USNM

Distribution. W (Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, Stanislaus)

Host/habitat. Alichtensia argentina , Coccus hesperidum , Eulecanium perinflatum , Parthenolecanium corni , Saissetia coffeae , possibly as a hyperparasitoid

Remarks. Although Timberlake (1926) reared this species from P. corni , no definitive biological studies of this species have been conducted. One congener, G. tertia , is a hyperparasitoid of Planococcus citri via Leptomastix dactylopii ( Kerrich 1953) , and a second, G. saissetiae Timberlake, 1926 , has been recorded from several families of scales ( Noyes 2001) and is suspected of being hyperparasitic on Saissetia oleae ( Compere 1939c) , although Trjapitzin (2010) considered the entire genus was hyperparasitic. De Santis (1989) reported the host of G. californica as “Cochinilla blanda”: Noyes (2001) treated this host as a pseudococcid, but it is a common name for C. hesperidum (see De Santis & Monetti 2008: 97).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

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