120. Thripoctenus javae (Girault)

Material examined. 1 ♂, Israel, Ga’ton, ex. Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) on Avocado ( Persea americana), 1996 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček (PPIS); 16 ♀, 2 ♂, Ga’ton, ex. H. haemorrhoidalis on avocado, 24.viii.1997 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček (PPIS); 4 ♀, 1 ♂, Rehovot, Coastal Plain, ex. Viburnum tinus, 01.ix.1997 (W. Kuslitsky) det. Kuslitsky as Thripobius semiluteus Bouček (PPIS); 4 ♀, Rehovot, ex. H. haemorrhoidalis on Viburnum tinus, 10.v.2013 (W. Kuslitsky).

Hosts. Endoparasitoid of Coccoidea sp. ( Hemiptera) (Triapitsyn, 2005) and Brachythrips sp., Heliothrips sp., Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché), Sigmothrips aotearoana Ward, Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard), Panchaetothrips indicus Bagnall, Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, Thrips sp. ( Thysanoptera, Thripidae) (Bouček 1977, 1988; LaSalle & McMurtry 1989).

Distribution. Israel (Wysoky et al. 2000); cosmopolitan (Noyes 2014).

Remarks. It was introduced under the syn. Thripobius semiluteus Bouček into Israel by M. Wysoky in 1991.