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PYGOSTOLUS FALCATUS FOUND IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE, BLACINAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. C. Loan  and
L. S. Thompson
C. C. Loan
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Belleville, Ontario
L. S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
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Abstract

The Palaearctic braconid Pygostolus falcatus (Nees) is recorded from Prince Edward Island parasitic on Sitona hispidula F.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 104 , Issue 5 , May 1972 , pp. 779 - 780
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1972

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