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Issue: Vol. 2214 No. 1: 31 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2214.1.4
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 30

Recent occurrence of Aphanogmus dictynna (Waterston) (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) in Kenya — an important hyperparasitoid of the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS-USDA, Washington, DC 20013, U.S.A
Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK; Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Hymenoptera Coffee pests biocontrol biological control hyperparasitism superparasitism secondary parasitoid

Abstract

The ceraphronid wasp Aphanogmus dictynna (Waterston) was recently recorded in error as an undescribed species of Aphanogmus. This species is a primary parasitoid on larvae and cocoons of the bethylid Prorops nasuta Waterston, and probably a second bethylid species, Cephalonomia stephanoderis Betrem. Both bethylids are primary parasitoids, and important biological control agents, of larvae and pupae of the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari). New host and distribution records are provided for A. dictynna, as well as a diagnosis and comments on its taxonomic relationships.

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