This paper reports the first occurence of the parasite Aphaereta sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) which was collected from Peckia chrysostoma pupae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) by means of traps containing some fish baits in a wood area close to the Agronomy college (Faculdade of Agronomia) in Itumbiara, Goiás, in the period from March to September, 2001. A total of 362 gregarious specimens...

Wilkinsonellus Mason is a relatively small Pantropical genus of braconid parasitoid wasps within the subfamily Microgastrinae. Most of the currently described species are from the Palaeotropics; however, previous records were absent from Fiji. Here, the first three Wilkinsonellus species from Fiji are described: Wilkinsonellus corpustriacolor sp. n., Wilkinsonellus fijienis sp. n. and Wilkinson...

This article summarizes the data collected on basis of several years scientific and practical research, identifies bioecology main Lepidoptera family with high rates economic damage to forest agricultural crops, developmental stages, species composition systematics. Accordingly, parasitic entomophages belonging families Trichogrammatidae, Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Chalcididae, Pteromalidae wer...

In this paper a new species of doryctine wasp of the small and rarely collected genus Labania Hedqvist (Braconidae: Doryctinae) is described and illustrated from Brazil. Labania carolinae sp.n. is similar to Labania minuta Marsh, but it can be easily distinguished by the head yellow, with stemmaticum black, mesosoma and metasoma yellow, legs whitish yellow, propodeum with distinct areola, fore ...

While netting bats to collect streblid bat flies at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, two different natural enemies of streblids were found attacking the bat flies on two species of bats. One was identified as a parasitoid in the hymenopteran family, Braconidae, while the other was a predaceous plant bug in the hemipteran family, Miridae. This is the first description of a natural enemy ...

We revised the Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) collected in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). To date, only Chrysopophthorus hungaricus (Kiss) was reported there. This catalogue is updated to a total of nine species, six of them being newly described: Centistes caloupile sp. nov., Cosmophorus merdiculus sp. nov., Leiophron sarahae sp. nov., Leiophron yaeli sp. nov., Meteorus comonile sp. nov....

Protapanteles (Protapanteles) enephes (Nixon, 1965) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) was reared from the host Fountainea ryphea phidile (Geyer, 1837) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae), collected on Croton floribundus Spreng. (Euphorbiaceae) in São Carlos, São Paulo state, Brazil. The hyperperparasitoids Conura sp. (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) and a Pteromalidae species are registere...

Two new species of Braconidae parasitoid wasps, Pambolus (Phaenodus) infuscatus Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. (Pambolinae) and Paroplitis khajjiarensis Fernández-Triana (Microgastrinae) are described illustrated from Himachal Pradesh, India. A key to the Oriental an update world provided. Additionally, Centistes (Centistes) cuspidatus (Haliday) (Euphorinae) is reported for first time ...

Our work reports on the establishment of neotropical parasitoid Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris Marsh (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for first time in Europe. This larval has been recorded samples collected commercial tomato crops Catalonia (North-eastern Spain) from 2016 to present. is considered be a new biocontrol agent among resident complex Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae).