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TWO NEW SPECIES OF CHALCIDOID WASPS (HYMENOPTERA) PARASITIC ON THE BALSAM GALL MIDGE (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE) IN MAINE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. W. MacGown
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762

Abstract

Pseudencyrtus borealis and Tetrastichus cecidivorus n. spp. are described as parasites of Paradiplosis tumifex Gagné. Both were reared from balsam fir needle galls in late summer and fall.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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