The aphids, aphid parasitoids, and hyperparasitoids found in citrus orchards, the parasitoids' and hyperparasitoids' seasonal abundance, and the plant-aphid-parasitoid relationships in Hatay, Osmaniye, Adana, and Mersin provinces of the east Mediterranean region of Turkey are presented in the present 2-yr study. Aphidius colemani Viereck, Binodoxys angelicae (Haliday), and Lysiphlebus confusus ...

a survey was carried out on the hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, pemphigus spyrothecae passerini, 1860 in ardabil province from 2012 to 2013. two pteromalid species, including pachyneuron solitarium (hartig, 1838) and asaphes suspensus (nees, 1834) were reared from the mummified aphids. both species are hyperparasitoid of p. spyrothecae via monoctonia vesicarii tremblay, 1991 (...

In western North America, infestations of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), are common on orchard, ornamental, and roadside western hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sargent. However, these infestations rarely cause T. heterophylla mortality.Host tolerance andpresence of endemic predatorsmaybe contributing to the relatively low levels of injury to T. het...

Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) is an invasive species recently introduced in the American continent and has been causing great losses sorghum crop. In surveys carried out cities of Uberlândia Sete Lagoas, state Minas Gerais, Brazil, during year 2021, mummified specimens M. were collected on plants, from which parasitoid Aphidius platensis (Brèthes, 1913) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae...

The specimens of the pteromalid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Ptero-malidae) were caught using Malaise traps and sweeping net in Kerman province Iran during March 2016 to August 2017. genus Coelopisthia Förster, 1856 species: C. areolata Askew, 1980, Homoporus apharetus (Walker, 1839), Norbanus brevicornis Szelenyi, 1974, Pachyneuron gibbiscuta Thomson, 1878, Sphegigaster pedunculiventris (...