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- Title
Encarsia hera Lahey & Andreason (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae): a charismatic new parasitoid of Aleurocybotus Quaintance & Baker (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) from Florida.
- Authors
Lahey, Zachary; Simmons, Alvin M.; Andreason, Sharon A.
- Abstract
A new, biparental species of the genus Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), E. hera Lahey & Andreason, sp. nov., is characterized based on morphological and molecular data. The parasitoid was reared from the puparia of its host, an undescribed species of the grass-feeding aleyrodine genus Aleurocybotus Quaintance & Baker (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) collected in Gainesville, Florida. The same whitefly is newly recorded from Charleston, South Carolina, where it is a pest of ornamental Muhly grass [Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin. (Poaceae)]. A phylogenetic analysis based on a fragment of 28S ribosomal DNA in 34 Encarsia species placed E. hera, sp. nov., within the E. luteola-group, a result concordant with its morphology. A key to the Encarsia species reared from Aleurocybotus is provided.
- Subjects
GAINESVILLE (Fla.); CHARLESTON (S.C.); FLORIDA; ALEYRODIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; RIBOSOMAL DNA
- Publication
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2022, Issue 94, p89
- ISSN
1070-9428
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/jhr.94.94677