Leptomastix dactylopii HOWARD, 1885

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Leptomastix dactylopii HOWARD, 1885

Leptomastix dactylopii HOWARD, 1885 : ANGA & NOYES 1999: 97 (tab. 1: catalogue Leptomastix species used in biological control), 98 (keys ♀, ♁), 106 (taxonomy, description ♀ ♁, biology, Nefasit), 111 (host-parasitoid catalogue), 112 (host-parasitoid catalogue), 123 (figs 39-42), 124 (figs 43-46), 127 (fig. 63), 128 (figs 70a, b).

* Leptomastix superbus sp.n.: SILVESTRI 1915b: 348 (description ♀ ♁, fig. 9, biology, Nefasit), 349 (fig. 10.1-6).

Leptomastix superbus SILVESTRI, 1915 : COMPERE 1938: 325 (key ♀, footnote: taxonomy).

Leptomastix superbus SILVESTRI, 1915 : FULMEK 1943: 68 (world host-parasitoid catalogue).

Leptomastix superbus SILVESTRI, 1915 : THOMPSON 1944: 87 (world host-parasitoid catalogue), 137 (world parasitoid-host catalogue).

Leptomastix superbus SILVESTRI, 1915 : THOMPSON 1955: 257 world (parasitoid-host catalogue).

Leptomastix superba SILVESTRI, 1915 : ANNECKE & INSLEY 1971: 16 (catalogue Afrotropical region).

Leptomastix superba SILVESTRI, 1915 : PRINSLOO 1983: 11 (parasitoid-host catalogue Afrotropical region).

Leptomastix superba SILVESTRI, 1915 : ABATE 1991: 14 (parasitoid-host catalogue Ethiopia: Ethiopia = Eritrea).

Leptomastix superba SILVESTRI, 1915 : NOYES & HAYAT 1994: 473 (app. 2: host-parasitoid catalogue).

Leptomastix superba SILVESTRI, 1915 : ANGA & NOYES 1999: 106 (synonym).

H o s t: Hemiptera , Pseudococcidae : Pseudococcus sp. ( SILVESTRI 1915a).

D i s t r i b u t i o n:Nefasit. Leptomastix dactylopii , which is known from all zoogeographical regions, is not recorded from the African neighbour countries, but is known from the Arabian peninsula ( Saudi Arabia).