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Two new sibling species of Gryon Haliday (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), egg parasites of blood-sucking Reduviidae (Heteroptera)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Lubomir Masner
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada

Abstract

Two species of Gryon Haliday, parasites on eggs of blood-sucking Reduviids, are described, namely G. triatomae sp.n. from Singapore and India, reared from eggs of Triatoma rubrofasciata (De Geer) and Linshcosteus sp., and G. linshcostei sp.n. from India from eggs of Linshcosteus sp. The species differ in biological attributes but are not separable by morphology; with G. insularis (Ashmead) they form the insularis-group.

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Original Articles
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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