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A NOTE ON PELECINUS POLYTURATOR (HYMENOPTERA: PELECINIDAE), A PARASITE OF PHYLLOPHAGA ANXIA (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

K.P. Lim ,
W.N. Yule  and
R.K. Stewart
K.P. Lim
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 1C0
W.N. Yule
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 1C0
R.K. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 1C0
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The common June beetle, Phyllophaga anxia (LeConte), is an indigenous pest of agricultural crops in North America (Hammond 1948; Ritcher 1949). A bionomic study and survey for natural enemies of P. anxia was conducted in southern Quebec from 1975 to 1977. Pasture soils were searched for immature stages of P. anxia, and any natural enemies found in situ were collected. A prepupa and pupae of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) were found in the pasture on several occasions. Previously, P. polyturator had been reported as a parasite of grubs of Phyllophaga spp. (Davis 1919; Petch and Hammond 1925, 1926; Brues 1928; Hammond 1944), and its distribution ranges from Canada to Argentina (Masner 1979).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 112 , Issue 2 , 01 February 1980 , pp. 219 - 220
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

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