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Using partial DNA sequence data from nuclear 28S and 18S genes and mitochondrial 16S and COI genes, we reconstructed a phylogeny of the family Eurytomidae. Both maximum parsimony and Bayesian methods were employed. The analysis revealed a significant incongruence between the mitochondrial genes and the nuclear genes, and we chose the results from the nuclear genes as our preferred hypothesis. O...

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is a widely employed measure of developmental stability. It has been found to increase with many stressors including parasite infection. Associations between parasites and FA may exist for several reasons in addition to parasites being the direct cause of increased FA. Developmentally stable individuals may have superior immune systems, and be less susceptible to para...

Strawberry guava Psidium cattleianum Sabine (Myrtales, Myrtaceae) was introduced to Hawaii about 1825 and quickly escaped from cultivation. It is now found on all inhabited islands where it is one of the most important forest weeds. The small trees form extremely dense monotypic stands up to 10 m in height. Four insect species were found that have significant deleterious effects and, therefore,...

A survey was conducted in Iran, on xylophagous beetles, to collect and determine their associated chalcidoid parasitoids (Hym.: Chalcidoidea). Nineteen species of parasitoids are recorded. These species are from 6 families: Chalcididae, Encyrtidae, Eulophidae, Eupelmidae, Eurytomidae and Pteromalidae belong 4, 1, 1, 2, 4 and 7 species, respectively. Five species were discovered as new record fo...

New data on the karyotype structure of five species of the subfamily Eurytominae are described, including the following species: Eurytoma rosae (2n = 20), E. robusta (n =7, 2n = 14), E. serratulae (n = 6, 2n = 12), E. compressa (2n = 10) and Sycophila biguttata (2n = 18). 2n = 10, 12 and 14 are reported for the first time for the Eurytominae, in which only 2n = 20 and 18 have been previously fo...

Abstract This is the first official report of pistachio pest Eurytoma plotnikovi in France. Twenty adults were identified after they emerged from a sample collected South‐Eastern A brief description provided, along with biological, geographical and economic data on pest. species should not be considered as major concern for nut production France so far, although this might evolve development cr...