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Host-instar selection in the aphid parasitoid Monoctonus paulensis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae): a preference for small pea aphids

European Journal of Entomology, 2000
Monoctonus paulensis is a solitary parasitoid of several species of aphids, including the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. We evaluated host-instar selection by comparing the parasitoid's preference for the four nymphal instars of the pea aphid, presented
Amanda CHAU, Manfred MACKAUER
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A new suite of twenty-two polymorphic microsatellite loci in the parasitic wasp, Habrobracon hebetor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Promising molecular tools for studying the population genetics of several beneficial braconid species

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
Combining a biotin-enrichment protocol and 454GS-FLX titanium pyrosequencing technology, we characterised 22 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the parasitic wasp, Habrobracon hebetor (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a cosmopolitan species commonly ...
Madougou GARBA, Anne LOISEAU, Laure BENOIT, Nathalie GAUTHIER   +3 more
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Hymenopteran parasitoids of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)) in Australia, with the description of five new species in the families Braconidae and Eulophidae

Austral Entomology
Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) is an invasive pest of agricultural crops including sweet corn and maize. The moth was first recorded in Australia in January 2020 and is now considered established in most states and territories, and ...
Erinn P. Fagan‐Jeffries, Melina M. Miles, Tareva‐Chine C. Atkin‐Zaldivar, Andy G. Howe, Siva Subramaniam, Donna M. Chambers, F. P. J. Tadle, S. Adnan, V. Sivasubramaniam, Alice Woodward   +9 more
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Rearing of Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its host Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2014
Establishing continuous and reliable colonies of pest-parasitoid systems in the laboratory is an essential requirement for carrying out manipulative experiments on biological control. Here we describe in detail the rearing protocols that we optimized for
Elodie BELZ, Céline E. GÉNEAU, Moritz FÜRST, Oliver BALMER, Pius ANDERMATT, Lukas PFIFFNER, Léon WESTERD, Henryk LUKA   +7 more
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Descriptions of adults, immature stages and venom apparatus of two new species of Dacnusini: Chorebus pseudoasphodeli sp. n., parasitic on Phytomyza chaerophili Kaltenbach and C. pseudoasramenes sp. n., parasitic on Cerodontha phragmitophila Hering (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae; Diptera: Agromyzidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2003
The imagines, cast skin of the final larval instar, and venom apparatus of Chorebus pseudoasphodeli sp. n., an endoparasitoid of Phytomyza chaerophylli Kaltenbach, 1856 on Daucus carota L., and Chorebus pseudoasramenes sp.
Josep TORMOS, Xavier PARDO, Ricardo JIMÉNEZ, Josep Daniel ASÍS, Severiano F. GAYUBO   +4 more
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Comparison of the suitability of three pest leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae) as hosts for the parasitoid Dacnusa sibirica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2005
The suitability of Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, L. trifolii (Burgess) and L. bryoniae (Kaltenbach) as hosts of the solitary larval-pupal parasitoid Dacnusa sibirica Telenga was studied.
Yoshihisa ABE, Tomohiko TAKEUCHI, Susumu TOKUMARU, Jun KAMATA   +3 more
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El género Lysaphidus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) en la Península Ibérica

Graellsia, 1995
Se detecta la presencia del género Lysaphidus Smith, 1944 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae) en la Península Ibérica, representado por dos especies, L. arvensis Stary, 1960, nueva cita para la Peninsula Ibérica y L. santolinae n.
J. M. Michelena Saval, A. Sanchís Segovia   +1 more
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A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

ZooKeys, 2017
A second species of protorhyssaline wasps (Braconidae) is described and figured from inclusions in Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) amber of the Raritan Formation in New Jersey, USA. Rhetinorhyssalites emersoni, gen. n., sp.
M. Engel, Jennifer C. Thomas, A. S. Alqarni   +2 more
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The parasitoid species complex associated with sexual and parthenogenetic Naryciinae (Lepidoptera: Psychidae): Integrating ecological and molecular analyses

European Journal of Entomology, 2011
This study describes the parasitoid species complex associated with seven closely related species of sexual (Siederia rupicollella, S. listerella, Dahlica lazuri, D. charlottae and D.
Jelmer A. ELZINGA, Kees ZWAKHALS, Johanna MAPPES, Alessandro GRAPPUTO   +3 more
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Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2016
Background The checklist of British and Irish Braconidae is revised, based in large part on the collections of the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the Natural History Museum, London.
G. Broad, M. Shaw, H. C. J. Godfray
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