Aprostocetus ceroplastae (Girault)

Gadallah, Neveen S., Yefremova, Zoya A., Yegorenkova, Ekaterina N., Soliman, Ahmed M., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2015, A review of the family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Egypt, with thirty three new records, Zootaxa 4058 (1) : -

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D5BFBEB2-70C2-4DEF-97AF-8D104E0FDE5B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6116769
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scientific name	Aprostocetus ceroplastae (Girault)
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Aprostocetus ceroplastae (Girault) View in CoL

Material examined. 1♀, El-Heiz (Ein Eleza, Bahariya Oasis), 28°01'34"N, 28°38'20"E, swept on Medicago sativa L. , 31.x.2013 (leg. Usama Abu El-Ghiet).

Previous records from Egypt. Alexandria ( Hafez et al. 1987 as Tetrastichus ceroplastae ), Mansoura (Daqahleya) (31°01'94"N, 31°22'39"E) ( Ragab 1995 as T. ceroplastae ), Fayoum (29°18'30"N, 30°50'34"E) ( Gadallah et al. 2014).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Australian and Palaearctic.

Host records. In Egypt, this species has been reported from Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman) ( Hemiptera : Diaspididae ), Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock ( Hemiptera : Coccidae ) ( Hafez et al. 1987), and Ceroplastes rusci (Linnaeus) ( Hemiptera : Coccidae ) ( Ragab 1995).