Anagyrus aurantifrons Compere, 1926

Guerrieri, Emilio & Cascone, Pasquale, 2018, Anagyrus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitoids of the invasive Delottococcus aberiae (De Lotto) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from South Africa, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4531 (3), pp. 374-382 : 379

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E4CC1839-14DF-45AA-9767-9ED9F75F6759

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5950134

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A48911-F818-8326-FF64-FBE3FB3EF11F

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Plazi

scientific name

Anagyrus aurantifrons Compere
status

 

Anagyrus aurantifrons Compere View in CoL

( Fig. 13–17 View FIGURES 13–17 )

Material examined. Paratype: 1 ♀ “ Anagyrus aurantifrons ” “ Cape Town, South Africa ”, “ins. 12.viii,1924 at Riverside”, “ex mealybug on oleander” “citrus lab n° a9”, “E. W. Rust coll”(NHM); 1 ♀ South Africa, Western Cape, Stellenbosch, 33°56'42.4"S + 18°50'33.8"E, ex Delottococcus aberiae on Olea europaea subsp. africana (V. Martínez-Blay & J. Puig) .

Comments. The species, described and pictured by Compere (1926, 1939), is close to A. antoniae (see comments under antoniae ). Delottococcus aberiae represents a new host record for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

Genus

Anagyrus

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