Gonatocerus ashmeadi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Mymaridae
Genus: Gonatocerus
Species:
G. ashmeadi
Binomial name
Gonatocerus ashmeadi
Girault, 1915

Gonatocerus ashmeadi is a species of fairyfly. Its natural range is Florida, Louisiana, northeastern Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina, eastern Texas, and southern and central California.[1][2]

It is used to control the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

References

  1. ^ Pilkington, Leigh J.; Hoddle, Mark S. (2006). "Reproductive and developmental biology of Gonatocerus ashmeadi (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), an egg parasitoid of Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)". Biological Control. 37 (3): 266–275. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2006.02.006.
  2. ^ http://files.piercesdisease.org/proceedings/2002/2002_103-103.pdf[permanent dead link]


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