A new species of Anagyrus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from Puerto Rico (USA), parasitoid of Harrisia cactus mealybug, Hypogeococcus sp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), on Pilosocereus royenii (Cactaceae)

Authors

  • Serguei V Triapitsyn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v23i1.5404

Keywords:

Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae, Anagyrus, Puerto Rico, parasitoid, mealybug, Hypogeococcus

Abstract

A new species of the genus Anagyrus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), A. ciomperliki sp. n., is described from Puerto Rico (USA) as a primary parasitoid of the Harrisia cactus mealybug, Hypogeococcus sp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), on the native Pilosocereus royenii cactus (Cactaceae).

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Gibson, G.A.P. 1997. Chapter 2. Morphology and terminology, pp. 16-44. In: Gibson, G.A.P., J.T. Huber and J.B. Woolley (eds), Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Noyes, J.S. 2000. Encyrtidae of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 1. The subfamily Tetracneminae, parasitoids of mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 62: plate 1 + 1-355.

Triapitsyn, S.V., M.B. Aguirre, G.A. Logarzo and A. Dal Molin. 2014. Taxonomic notes on primary and secondary parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae and Signiphoridae) of Hypogeococcus spp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Argentina. Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 58 (2): 171-186.

Triapitsyn, S.V., G.A. Logarzo, M.B. Aguirre and D.A. Aquino. 2014. Two new species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from Argentina, parasitoids of Hypogeococcus spp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), with taxonomic notes on some congeneric taxa. Zootaxa, 3861 (3): 201-230.

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2016-06-30

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2016)

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