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- Title
Two Parasites of the Green Lacewing Chrysopa chi Fitch (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): One Species Known and One Species Unidentified.
- Authors
Taber, Stephen W.
- Abstract
One insect species parasitizing adults of the green lacewing Chrysopa chi Fitch and the cocoon of a second species were encountered in western Michigan. Adult females of the ectoparasitic ceratopogonid midge Forcipomyia eques (Johannsen) were found attached to the forewings of two adult hosts but the cocoon of the endoparasitic species remains unidentified. It appears to be the work of a new species or a described species not yet known to parasitize chrysopids because the cocoon is different from the only such specimen known for the euphorine braconid Chrysopophthorus americanus Mason, the only U.S. insect suspected as an internal parasite of adult chrysopids. The braconid is rarely encountered but known from Arizona and presumably occurs in other southwestern states where the solution to the identity problem might be found.
- Subjects
MICHIGAN; CHRYSOPIDAE; PARASITIC insects; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COCOONS
- Publication
Southwestern Entomologist, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
0147-1724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3958/059.036.0109