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A Note on the Parasitisation of the Oöthecae of Periplaneta americana (L.) by the Chalcid, Syntomosphyrum glossinae Wtstn. —a Correction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

A. M. Jordan
Affiliation:
Research Entomologist, West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research, Kaduna, N. Nigeria.

Extract

A correction is made to a paper by Nash (1955) in which Syntomosphyrum glossinae Wtstn., a Chalcid parasite of the pupae of tsetse flies, was wrongly recorded as parasitising the oöthecae of Periplaneta americana (L.). The parasite in question was almost certainly the very similar Tetrastichua hagenowii (Ratz.)which is a world-wide parasite of P. americana. There is no evidence that eitherparasite can attack both P. americana and Glossina palpalis (R.-D.).

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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References

Nash, T. A. M. (1947). A record of Syntomosphyrum glossinae from Nigeria.— Bull. ent. Res., 38, p. 525.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nash, T. A. M. (1955). A note on the parasitisation of the oöthecae of Periplaneta americana (L.) by the Chalcid, Syntomosphyrum glossinae Wtstn.— Bull. ent. Res., 46, pp. 111112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar