The lesser peachtreeborer, Synanthedonpictipes (Grote andRobinson), is an important pest of Prunus spp.We determined the susceptibility of S. pictipes to six entomopathogenic nematode species:Heterorhabditis bacteriophoraPoinar,H. indicaPoinar, Karunakar andDavid,H.marelatusLiu and Berry, Steinernema carpocapsae (Weiser), S. feltiae (Filipjev), and S. riobrave Cabanillas, Poinar and Raulston. N...

A revisionary checklist of the Sesiini of southern Africa is presented. All known genera of the region and their type species are redescribed. The following genera are placed in Sesiini for the first time: Alonina Walker, 1856; Anaudia Wallengren, 1863; Austrosetia Felder & Felder, 1874; Megalosphecia Le Cerf, 1916 and Vespanthedon Le Cerf, 1917. The genera Cicinnoscelis Holland, 1893 rev. stat...

The dogwood borer, Synanthedon scitula (Harris) (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), is a serious wood-boring pest of apple in eastern North America. The recent identification of its sex pheromone and systematic documentation of the effect of a potent behavioral antagonist affords the opportunity to develop pheromone-based management strategies for this important pest. Here we evaluated the potential of ph...

Four species of clearwing moths found in Sakhalin Island July 2021. Pen-nisetia hylaeiformis (Laspeyres, 1801), Sesia yezoensis (Hampson, 1919) and Synanthedon bicingulata (Staudinger, 1887) were collected using synthetic sex pheromones. Females herzi Špatenka et O. Gorbunov, 1992 from inflorescences Eupatorium chinense L. (Asteraceae). is recorded for the fauna island first time. Pennisetia re...