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Issue: Vol. 3608 No. 3: 18 Jan. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.3.4
Page range: 204–214
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 17

Revision of North American Aleiodes (Part 9): the pallidator (Thunberg) species-group with description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae)

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management (3354), University of Wyoming, 1000 East University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071 U.S.A
Cooperating Scientist, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, U.S.A
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management (3354), University of Wyoming, 1000 East University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071 U.S.A.
Hymenoptera Nearctic parasitoid Lymantriidae gypsy moth new host records

Abstract

The Aleiodes pallidator species-group is defined, and an identification key is provided for the five species known to occur in the U.S.A. and Canada. Two new species are described: Aleiodes martini Shaw and Marsh, from Florida, and A. xanthoclypeus Shaw and Marsh, known from Canada and Wisconsin, and reared from Lymantriidae species including Dasychira plagiata (Walker) and Olene grisefacta (a new host record for the genus Aleiodes). Five species are illustrated, and their host associations are summarized.

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