Cerchysius Westwood 1832

Zuparko, Robert L., 2015, Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Zootaxa 4017 (1), pp. 1-126 : 18

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6116892

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scientific name

Cerchysius Westwood 1832
status

 

Cerchysius Westwood 1832 View in CoL View at ENA [New state record]

Hosts. Diptera : Chamaemyiidae , Drosophilidae , Leucospidae

marilandicus Girault 1917e: 119 View in CoL [New state record] (CAS, LACM, RLZC, UCDC)

Type. USNM

Distribution. N (Contra Costa, El Dorado, Lassen, Marin, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, Santa Clara, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo)

Host/habitat. Unknown

Remarks. The name of the paper in which C. marilandicus was described was mistakenly recorded by Noyes (2001) as “Descriptions of miscellanous Chalcid-Flies from California”, but in fact the last two words are not present in the title. Of the 12 described species in this genus, only three ( laticeps Kerrich , subplanus (Dalman) and ugandensis Kerrich, all Palearctic taxa) have recorded hosts, all Diptera . However, there are two records in the literature of undescribed Cerchysius from Hemiptera : a Cerchysius species near laticeps was reared from a scale (“Coccid on wild plant”) in India (Shafee et al. 1975) (and not C. laticeps itself on a Pseudococcidae , as reported in Noyes & Hayat 1994 and Noyes 2001), and an undescribed species was reported as a hyperparasitoid on Coccus hesperidum via Microterys nietneri (as M. flavus ) in California, and associated with Saissetia oleae ( Timberlake 1913) . There is also a record of a Cerchysius sp. as a hyperparasitoid on Coelomera lanio Dalman , via Lydellothelaira collaris Townsend ( Diptera : Tachinidae ) ( Parker et al. 1953).

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Remarks. An apparently undescribed species is represented by a series of three specimens from Stanislaus County (UCFC).

Girault, A. A. (1917 e) Description of miscellanous chalcid flies. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 4, 109 - 121.

Noyes, J. S. & Hayat, M. (1994) Oriental mealybug parasitoids of the Anagyrini (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, 554 pp.

Noyes, J. S. (2001) Interactive catalogue of world Chalcidoidea, Taxapad CD. Vancouver, Canada.

Parker, H. L., Berry, P. A. & Silveira Guido, A. (1953) Host-parasite and parasite lists of insects reared in the South American Parasite Laboratory during the period 1940 - 46. Revista de la Asociacion (Federacion) Rural del Uruguay (Ingenieros Agronomos), 92, 1 - 101.

Timberlake, P. H. (1913) Preliminary report on the parasites of Coccus hesperidum in California. Journal of Economic Entomology, 6, 293 - 303. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / jee / 6.3.294

Westwood, J. O. (1832) Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. Philosophical Magazine, 1, 127 - 129. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 14786443208647849

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

SubFamily

Encyrtinae

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

SubFamily

Encyrtinae