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A NEW SPECIES OF TELENOMUS PARASITIC ON GEOCORIS (HYMENOPTERA: PROCTOTRUPOIDEA; HEMIPTERA: LYGAEIDAE) IN CALIFORNIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Gordon Gordh  and
R. Akinyele Coker
Gordon Gordh
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Control and Division of Economic Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California
R. Akinyele Coker
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Control and Division of Economic Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California
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Abstract

Telenomus reynoldsi n. sp. (Scelionidae: Telenominae) is described as an egg parasite of Geocoris punctipes Say and G. pallens Stål in California. The parasite has been recovered from cotton fields at Thermal and Indio, and from strawberry fields at El Toro, California. Additional material deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History has been recovered from Geocoris collected at Buttonwillow and Weed, California.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 11 , November 1973 , pp. 1407 - 1411
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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