Rastrococcus invadens (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) or mealybug is an insect pest of mango and several other fruit trees including citrus. The cochineal native to Southeast Asia was first identified in Senegal Dakar 1995. Since then, it has been widely distributed throughout the country more particularly two most fruit-producing areas: Casamance Thies. To properly conduct our study, we chose four...

Important life history parameters of the mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), were characterized on hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.) cuttings at six constant temperatures between 15 and 35 degrees C. The development of M. hirsutus was the fastest at 27 degrees C, where the mealybugs completed development in approximately 29 d. The lower (T(min)) and upper (T(max)) developmental thres...

1 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 1301, INRA/UNSA/CNRS, Sophia-Antipolis, France 2 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Expérimentale de Lutte Biologique, Sophia-Antipolis, France 3 LNPV Montpellier, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France 4 Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária de Minas Gerais, EPAMIG, Lavras, Brazil 5 Embrapa Uva e Vinho,...

Two new species of Anagyrus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) are described from Argentina, A. cachamai Triapitsyn, Logarzo & Aguirre sp. n. (Catamarca, Córdoba, Salta and Tucumán Provinces) and A. quilmes Triapitsyn, Logarzo & Aguirre sp. n. (Catamarca, Salta and Tucumán). Both new species are parasitoids of Hypogeococcus spp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). Anagyrus cachamai is a parasitoid of H....