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A Parasitoid Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

open access: yesEDIS, 2017
Includes: Introduction - Synonymy - Distribution - Life Cycle and Description - Hosts - Economic Importance - Selected References Previously published on the Featured Creatures website at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/BENEFICIAL/WASPS ...
Nicholas S.G. Tucker, Philip E. Kaufman
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Manure Preferences and Postemergence Learning of Two Filth Fly Parasitoids, Spalangia cameroni and Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
The efficiency of host-seeking behavior is crucial to the reproductive performance of female parasitoids. Initially, parasitoids may use chemical information garnered from the microhabitat in which they emerge to locate hosts.
Caitlin E Taylor   +3 more
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TRANSFER OF THELYTOKY TO ARRHENOTOKOUS MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTOR GIRAULT AND SANDERS (HYMENOPTERA: PTEROMALIDAE) [PDF]

open access: yesThe Canadian Entomologist, 1987
AbstractThelytokous reproduction was developed and fixed in arrhenotokous Muscidifurax raptor Girault and Sanders by mating hybrid females, of interhemispheric strains, with naturally occurring males of M. uniraptor Kogan and Legner. A change in ovipositional behavior was shown by these mated hybrid females which subsequently produced thelytokous Fx ...
Kapongo J.P., Kevan P.G., Giliomee J.H.
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Laboratory Evaluation of Pupal Parasitoids for Control of the Cornsilk Fly Species, Chaetopsis massyla and Euxesta eluta

open access: yesInsects, 2022
Cornsilk flies are serious pests of sweet corn through damage to cobs and secondary fungal establishment. As pupae are generally outside the infested cob on the ground, there can be potential for use of pupal parasitoids for control.
Sandra A. Allan   +2 more
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New insights into the genome and transmission of the microsporidian pathogen Nosema muscidifuracis

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionNosema is a diverse genus of unicellular microsporidian parasites of insects and other arthropods. Nosema muscidifuracis infects parasitoid wasp species of Muscidifurax zaraptor and M.
Xiao Xiong   +9 more
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Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders 1910

open access: yes, 2022
Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders, 1910 Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders, 1910:149, Lectotype ♀. – INHS, USA. Distribution in the Middle East: Egypt (Azab et al., 1962), Iran (Iranpour et al., 1991; Modarres Awal, 2012), Iraq (Abdul-Rassoul et al., 1999), Israel (Kogan & Legner, 1970; Havron & Margalit, 1991; Chiel & Kuslitzky, 2016; Betelman ...
Rahmani, Zahra   +3 more
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