Encarsia cubensis Gahan, 1931

Matsunaga, Janis N., Howarth, Francis G. & Kumashiro, Bernarr R., 2019, New State Records and Additions to the Alien Terrestrial Arthropod Fauna in the Hawaiian Islands, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 51 (1), pp. 1-71 : 12

Encarsia cubensis Gahan

NEW STATE RECORD

Specimens of Encarsia cubensis were first reared from Aleurotrachelus trachoides ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ) infesting pepper plant ( Capsicum sp. ) foliage in Hilo in 2008. E. cubensis is a parasitoid of various whitefly species, including A. trachoides and Aleurothrixis floccosus (Noyes 2014) , two economically important pests in Hawaii.

Collection records: HAWAII, Hilo, Waiakea Uka, 21.V.2008, ex. Aleurotrachelus trachoides on Capsicum sp. foliage, coll. S. Matayoshi, det. G.A. Evans, 21.X.2008; Hilo, Waiakea Uka, 28.IX.2009, ex. A. trachoides on Capsicum sp. , coll. S. Matayoshi. OAHU, Makiki, 17.IV.2009, ex. prob. A. trachoides , coll. D. Oishi, C. Young & M. Lee, det. W. Nagamine, IV.2009. Vouchers at HDOA.