Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (2003) 39, 343-353
Zeljko Tomanovic, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Christos G. Athanassiou and Ljubisa L. Stanisavljevic (2003)
A review of the West Palaearctic aphidiines (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) parasitic on Uroleucon spp., with the description of a new species
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 39 (4), 343-353
Abstract: A review of aphidiine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing the Uroleucon species in the West Palaearctic is presented. Eleven species are keyed and illustrated. In addition, a new hymenopteran parasitoid species: Praon nonveilleri n. sp. from Uroleucon inulicola (Hille Ris Lambers) infesting Inula ensifolia L., is described. The new species is diagnosed and illustrated. It belongs to the "dorsale-yomenae" species group and was collected from the Djetinja canyon in Serbia and Montenegro. The aphidiines presented in this work were identified from 97 aphid taxons occurring on 236 plant taxons. Furthermore, 361 original parasitoid - host aphid - host plant associations of the species mentioned in the key are presented. Finally, phylogenetic relationships inside the "dorsale-yomenae" species group and related species were reconstructed using cladistic distance methods.
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Database assignments for author(s): Zeljko Tomanovic, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos
Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
surveys/distribution/isolation
