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TWO GENARA OF CHEILONEURINI(HYMENOPTERA: ENCYRTIDAE) NEWLY RECORDED FROM CHINA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES
Author(s) -
Zhihong XU,
Huimei WANG
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2003.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - encyrtidae , biology , china , hymenoptera , entomology , botany , agriculture , ecology , zoology , archaeology , parasitoid , geography
The paper presents two new species of Cheiloneurini, Encyrtidae, collected from Liaoning and Jiangsu, China. i.e. Ectroma loui Xu, sp. nov., Platencyrtus aclerus Xu, sp. n., which are described in detail. These two genara Ectroma Westwood and Platencyrtus Ferriere are first recorded from China, and are all parasi‐toids of scale insects. All specimens are deposited in Institute of Applied Entomology, Agriculture & Biotechnology College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.