Associated Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) with the cotton mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in the southwestern Iran | ||
| Journal of Crop Protection | ||
| Article 11, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 129-139 PDF (917.85 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Research | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/jcp.2020.1465 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ebrahim Tamoli Torfi1; Arash Rasekh* 1; Seyed Abbas Moravvej1; Mohammad Saeed Mossadegh1; Ali Rajabpoor2 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. | ||
| 2Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Ahvaz, Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Eleven species of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) belonging to Aphelinidae, Encyrtidae, Eriaporidae and Signiphoridae associated with the cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) were collected and identified during 2017-2018 from Khuzestan province in the southwestern Iran. Prochiloneurus rex (Girault) (Encyrtidae) is new record for the fauna of Iran. Meanwhile, biological associations of Bothriothorax serratellus (Dalman), Leptomastix dactylopii Howard and L. mayri Özdikmen (Encyrtidae) as parasitoids and Marietta picta (André), P. rex and Chartocerus kurdjumovi (Nikolskaya) (Signiphoridae) as hyperparasitoids of Ph. solenopsis were new. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Phenacoccus solenopsis; Chalcidoidea; parasitoids; Khuzestan province; Southwestern Iran | ||
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