Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera)
Author
Zuparko, Robert L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4017
1
1
126
journal article
39938
10.11646/zootaxa.4017.1.1
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Epitetracnemus
Girault 1915a
[New state record]
Hosts.
Hemiptera
:
Asterolecaniidae
,
Coccidae
,
Diaspididae
intersectus
(
Fonscolombe 1832: 305
) (
Encyrtus
)
[
New state record
] (EMEC, RLZC)
Type
. Lost
Distribution.
W (Alameda, Contra Costa, Yuba)
Host/habitat.
Asterodiaspis
mina
,
A
.
quercicola
,
Asterolecanium
sp.,
Ceroplastes rubens
,
Diaspidiotus bavaricus
,
D
.
gigas
,
D
.
macroporanus
,
D
.
ostreaeformis
,
D
.
perniciosus
,
D
.
prunorum
,
D
.
pyri
,
Lepidoasphes tubulorum
,
L
.
ulmi
,
L
. sp.,
Parthenolecanium rufulum
,
Pseudaonidia duplex
,
P
.
paeoniae
,
Pseudaulacaspis pentagona
,
Sphaerolecanium prunastri
Remarks.
De
Santis (1989)
reported
Carulaspis minima
(Signoret)
as a host from
Bermuda
, while
Noyes (2001)
reported both
C
.
minima
and
Lepidoasphes newsteadi
(Ć ulc
)
as hosts. These records appear to be erroneous, traceable to the biocontrol program directed against these two pests in
Bermuda
(
Bennett & Hughes 1959
). Although
E
.
intersectus
was exported from
Italy
as part of this program, I could find no primary records indicating that this species was successfully reared from either host.