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Aprostocetus ceroplastae Girault

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Aprostocetus ceroplastae (Girault)

Material examined. 1♀, El-Heiz (Ein Eleza, Bahariya Oasis), 28°01'34"N, 28°38'20"E, swept on Medicago sativa L., 31.x.2013 (leg. Usama Abu El-Ghiet).

Previous records from Egypt. Alexandria (Hafez et al. 1987 as Tetrastichus ceroplastae), Mansoura (Daqahleya) ( 31°01'94"N, 31°22'39"E) (Ragab 1995 as T. ceroplastae), Fayoum (29°18'30"N, 30°50'34"E) (Gadallah et al. 2014).

Distribution. Afrotropical, Australian and Palaearctic.

Host records. In Egypt, this species has been reported from Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock (Hemiptera: Coccidae) (Hafez et al. 1987), and Ceroplastes rusci (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) (Ragab 1995).

Notes

Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Yefremova, Zoya A., Yegorenkova, Ekaterina N., Soliman, Ahmed M., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Edmardash, Yusuf A., 2015, A review of the family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Egypt, with thirty three new records in Zootaxa 4058 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/236570

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/446FAC302A18A073FF2EFD57B2F9FB8A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/236570 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B856D4482A11A07AFFB9FF83B047FFBA (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D5BFBEB2-70C2-4DEF-97AF-8D104E0FDE5B (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/446FAC302A18A073FF2EFD57B2F9FB8A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119647753 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/39270/taxon/446FAC302A18A073FF2EFD57B2F9FB8A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Eulophidae
Genus
Aprostocetus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Girault
Species
ceroplastae
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hafez, M. B., El-Minshawy, A. M. & Donia, A. R. (1987) Population fluctuations on parasites of Lepidosaphes beckii Newm. and Ceroplastes floridensis Comst. Anzeiger fur Schadlingskunde, Pflanzen- und Umweltschutz, 60 (1), 6 - 9. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 01903930
  • Ragab, M. E. (1995) Efficiency of Scutellista cyanea Motsch. (Hym., Pteromalidae) and Tetrastichus ceroplastae (Gir.) (Hym., Eulophidae) in population suppression of Ceroplastes rusci L. (Hom., Coccidae). Journal of Applied Entomology, 119 (9), 627 - 630. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1439 - 0418.1995. tb 01348. x
  • Gadallah, N. S., Ghounemy, H. A., Abd-ElGayed, A. A. & Mahmoud, H. M. (2014) Parasitoids fauna (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the Egyptian clover, Trifolium alexandrinum Linnaeus, in Egypt. Entomofauna, 35 (3), 29 - 48.