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APHANOGMUS FULMEKI ASHMEAD (HYMENOPTERA: CERAPHRONIDAE), A PARASITOID OF APHIDOLETES APHIDIMYZA RONDANI (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

L.A. Gilkeson ,
J. P. McLean  and
P. Dessart
L.A. Gilkeson
Affiliation:
Pesticide Management Branch, B.C. Environment, Lands & Parks, 737 Courtney St., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8V 1X4
J. P. McLean
Affiliation:
Applied Bio-Nomics Ltd., 11074 W. Saanich Rd., Sidney, British Columbia, Canada V8L 3X9
P. Dessart
Affiliation:
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, V-1040 Bruxelles, Belgium
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The predatory gall midge, Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Rondani 1847), is a biological control agent used worldwide to control aphids. Mass-production methods are well established in Canada, the Netherlands, England, Germany, Finland, and the former U.S.S.R. (cf. van Leiburg and Ramakers 1984). In early March 1991, after 6 years of massproduction of A. aphidimyza on a rapidly increasing scale, two minute adult hymenopterous parasitoids were observed eclosing from a sample of pupae at a commercial insectary in British Columbia. It is likely that the founding parasitoid individual(s) entered the greenhouse before winter, as parasitoids appeared too early in the year to have entered from outdoors at that time.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 125 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 161 - 162
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1993

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