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Scutellista caerulea
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Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832)
Encyrtus caeruleus Fonscolombe, 1832:304, ♀. – HDOU, France.
Distribution in the Middle East: Algeria (Thompson, 1958), Egypt (Saad et al., 1977; El–Minshawy et al., 1978; Abd-Rabou, 2011), Iran (Hesami et al., 2008), Iraq (Alrubeai, 2017), Israel (Rosen, 1962; Rosen et al., 1971; Mendel et al., 1984), Jordan (Awamelah et al., 2008, 2009), Lebanon (Khazawinah & Talhouk, 1964), Libya (Lal & Naji, 1979b), Morocco (Thompson, 1958; Vago, 2002), Oman (Xiao & Huang, 2001), Palestine (Rivnay, 1944), Syria (Diab et al., 2014), Saudi Arabia (Faragalla et al., 1985), Tunisia (Jarraya, 1974; Mansour et al., 2011), Turkey (Western part – Öncüer, 1991; Yayla et al., 1995; Xiao & Huang, 2001; Kumral & Kovanci, 2004).
Zoogeographical distribution: Afrotropical, Australasian, Eastern Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanic, Oriental, Western Palaearctic.
Remarks: This species has been recorded as Scutellista syanea from Iraq (Alrubeai, 2017), and as Scutellista cyanea Motschulsky, 1859, from Egypt (Saad et al., 1977; El–Minshawy et al., 1978), Israel (Rosen, 1962; Rosen et al., 1971; Mendel et al., 1984), Lebanon (Khazawinah & Talhouk, 1964), Libya (Lal & Naji, 1979b), Palestine (Rivnay, 1944), Saudi Arabia (Faragalla et al., 1985), Tunisia (Mansour et al., 2011) and from Turkey (Öncüer, 1991; Yayla et al., 1995; Kumral & Kovanci, 2004).
Notes
Published as part of Rahmani, Zahra, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein & Mokhtari, Azizollah, 2022, Annotated checklist of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 265-377 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2) on page 283, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.8.2.265, http://zenodo.org/record/17020966
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- Journal article: 10.52547/jibs.8.2.265 (DOI)
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- HDOU
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- Fonscolombe
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
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- Pteromalidae
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- Scutellista
- Species
- caerulea
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe, 1832) sec. Rahmani, Rakhshani, Lotfalizadeh & Mokhtari, 2022
References
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- Saad, A. H., El - Minshawy, A. M. & Hammad, S. H. (1977) Studies on the bionomy of Scutellista cyanea Motsch. (Hym., Pteromalidae). Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Entomologie, 83 (2), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1977.tb02385.x
- Abd-Rabou, S. (2011) New records of the soft scale insects hosts associated with the promising parasitoid, Scutellista caerulea (Fonscolombe) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 89 (4), 1295-1301. https://doi.org/10.21608/ejar.2011.179000
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