Leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae) are pests of various crops, mainly in greenhouses, and have Diglyphus spp. as important leafminer larval parasitoids. Until recently, only Diglyphus insularis (Gahan) had been reported in Brazil. In here we report the first records of Diglyphus begini (Ashmead), D. intermedius (Girault) and D. isaea (Walker) in Brazil. These parasitoids were found parasitizing ...

Diglyphus isaea Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is an important ectoparasitic wasp of many leaf miners. Ability of D. isaea to find hosts placed in artificial mines and for its larvae to pupate when the larva is not in a mine was studied. Artificial mines consisted of slits cut in index card sandwiched between two cover slips. Almost 80% of the neonate larvae of D. isaea located host larvae in...

The parasitism efficiency of a parasitoid largely depends on its host location and stinging behaviour. This study aimed to assess the behaviour Diglyphus isaea larvae some selected plants. Three plants, including tomato, eggplant, pepper, were evaluated for their influence D. isaea's results showed that was significantly influenced by plant. highest frequency observed tomato followed eggplant p...

a survey was conducted to identify parasitoids of vegetable leafminer, liriomyza trifolii (burgess), in shiraz region from april 2004 to september 2005. a total of eight eulophid species, viz. baryscapus impeditus nees*, closterocerus formosus westwood, diaulinopsis arenaria erdos*, diglyphus crassinervis erdos, diglyphus isaea walker, diglyphus pulchripes crawford*, hemiptarsenus zilahisebessi...

Effects of the fungal endophytes Beauveria bassiana (isolates ICIPE 279, G1LU3, S4SU1) and Hypocrea lixii (isolate F3ST1) on the life-history of Phaedrotoma scabriventris and Diglyphus isaea, parasitoids of the pea leafminer Liriomyza huidobrensis, were studied in the laboratory. Parasitoids were allowed to parasitize 2(nd) and 3(rd) instar L. huidobrensis larvae reared on endophytically-inocul...

The results of this study revealed a steady increase in population density leaf miners Liriomyza bryoniae (Kaltenbach) from 1.33 larvae/leaf at the beginning season to 3.3, 6, and 7 with progression agricultural until 10 November, slight drop occurred end season. that miner showed significant negative correlation (-0.74) maximum temperature non-significant minimum temperature. percentage factor...

the agromyzid leafminers, liriomyza sativae blanchard and l. trifolii (burgess) (dip-tera: agromyzidae) are major pests that attack vegetables in varamin, tehran province. the parasitoids (hymenoptera: eulophidae) of these pests were investigated during 2003. the leafminer infested leaves were collected from different host plants, in particular cu-cumber (cucumis sativus l.,) and preserved unde...