Ophelosia crawfordi Riley, 1890

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Ophelosia crawfordi Riley

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Ophelosia crawfordi R iley, 1890: 248–250.

Ophelosia sulcata Girault, 1925: 1 . Synonymized by Berry, 1995: 44.

Phelosia crawfordi R iley; BoucÏek, 1988: 354.

Ophelosia crawfordi R iley; Berry, 1995: 44–45.

Material examined. China: F ujian, F uzhou, 2 November 1983, 1 1 (Tang Yu-Qing); F ujian F uzhou, 1964, 3, from mealybugs on citrus (Huang Chun-M ei); F ujian, F uzhou, 23 September 1955, 1, from Pseudococcus sp. (Liao Ding-Xi); Zhejiang, 1 June 1964), 1, from mealybugs on citrus (Liao Ding-Xi) .

Biology. Reared from Pseudococcus sp. and mealybugs on citrus in China. It was reported that Ophelosia crawfordi is a predator of margarodid eggs, and has been reared from Icerya purchasi on lemon, Leptospermum , Mimosa pigra and Cassia sp. , and from Icerya seychellarum (Westwood) ( Berry, 1995) . It has been reared from Planococcus citri , Pseudococcus adonidum , Pulvinaria sp. and as a hyperparasitoid via the encyrtid Tetracnemoidea sydneyensis .

Distribution. China (F ujian, Zhejiang); India, Australia, New Zealand, Java, U SA.