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Systellogaster ovivora Cahan (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Reared from Egg Capsules of the Wood-roach, Parcoblatta pennsylvanica (DeGeer), Collected at Rondeau Park, Ontario

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. W. Judd
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On September 21, 1953 the writer collected several egg capsules of the wood-roach, Parcoblatta pennsylvanica (DeGeer), from beneath the bark of dead, fallen trees in Rondeau Park, Kent County, Ontario. The capsules were put in a jar for rearing. During December 7 and 8, 1953 eight chalcidoid wasps, two males and six females, emerged from the capsules. They were identified as Systellogaster ovivora Gahan (family Pteromalidae) by Dr. 0. Peck, Systematic Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, who pointed out that this was the first Canadian record of this genus. One male and three females from this collection are deposited in the Canadian National Collection.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , February 1955 , pp. 98 - 99
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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