A new species of Coccophagus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), a parasitoid of lac insects (Hemiptera: Kerriidae) in Indonesia and Malaysia (original) (raw)

Within the scope of a survey for natural antagonists of the invasive lobate lac scale, Kondo & Gullan , several chalcidoid parasitoids were collected in their native regions. Th scale invaded from Asia into Florida, the Bahamas and was recently detected in Cuba (Schroer et al., 2008a). In Florida it threatens a great number of native plants and cultivated fruit trees (Pemberton, 2003). Chalcidoids were collected from species of southern Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and from and species of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Results on collection made from India during 2005-06 were recently published by Hayat (2007) and Schroer et al. (2008b). The encyrtids and aphelinids collected in 2007 from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia were passed on to the first author for species identification. The collected from Indonesia and Malaysia are described herein as a new species. The terminology follows Hayat (1998).

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