Hassan Ghahari
Abstract
Abstract Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) are the powerful parasitoids of whiteflies and armored scales (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Diaspididae) in most regions of the world which have efficient role in biological control of these pests in fields, orchards and greenhouses. ...
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Abstract Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) are the powerful parasitoids of whiteflies and armored scales (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Diaspididae) in most regions of the world which have efficient role in biological control of these pests in fields, orchards and greenhouses. The fauna of Encarsia was studied in Golestan province (Northern Iran) by collecting their main hosts, whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and rearing of hosts in optimum condition. In total, 12 Encarsia species including, Encarsia acaudaleyrodis Hayat, 1976, Encarsia auranti (Howard, 1894), Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986, Encarsia berlesei (Howard, 1906), Encarsia elegans Masi, 1911, Encarsia fasciata (Malenotti, 1917), Encarsia formosa Gahan, 1924, Encarsia inaron (Walker, 1839), Encarsia lounsburyi (Berlese & Paoli, 1916), Encarsia lutea (Masi, 1909), Encarsia mineoi Viggiani, 1982 and Encarsia perniciosi (Tower, 1913) were collected and identified. In this investigation, additionally to the faunistic study on Encarsia in Golestan province, synonymies, distribution, descriptions and identification key of species are given.
Atena Faraji; Shahrokh PashaieRad; Alireza Shayestehfar
Volume 1, Issue 1 , October 2012, , Pages 50-62
Abstract
During the taxonomical investigations of Coleoptera (family: Meloidae) of the Arak County, in spring and summer 2010, 15 species of blister beetles belonging to the two subfamily (Nemognathinae and Meloinae), three tribes (Mylabrini, Lyttini and Nemognathini) and six genus (Hycleus, Mylabris, ...
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During the taxonomical investigations of Coleoptera (family: Meloidae) of the Arak County, in spring and summer 2010, 15 species of blister beetles belonging to the two subfamily (Nemognathinae and Meloinae), three tribes (Mylabrini, Lyttini and Nemognathini) and six genus (Hycleus, Mylabris, Alosimus, Calydus, Teratolytta and Nemognatha) were collected and identified. In this study the geographical distribution and identification key of the collected species of blister beetles were considered. This is the first time that Calydus ornaticollis species from Arak and Teratolytta flavipes species from Iran was reported. Morphological characters such as mesosternum, antennae, pronotum, and male reproductive organ were the main identification character that was used.
