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Issue: Vol. 1018 No. 1: 15 Jul. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-07-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.3
Page range: 47–54
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 43

Two new species of Aphanogmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) of economic importance reared from Cybocephalus nipponicus (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae)

USDA/APHIS/PPQ, BARC-WEST, Building 005, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
Posthumous, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Departement. d'Entomologie Rue Vautier 29, B-1040 Bruxelles, BELGIUM
Tropical Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Homestead, Florida, 33031, USA
Hymenoptera Ceraphronidae new species Cybocephalus biological control

Abstract

Two new species, Aphanogmus albicoxalis and Aphanogmus inamicus are described and illustrated from specimens reared from Cybocephalus nipponicus, a cybocephalid beetle that feeds upon Aulacaspis yasumatsui, a newly introduced pest of cycads in Florida.

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