Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera)
Zuparko, Robert L.
Zootaxa
2015
4017
1
1
126
4LPP
Timberlake 1926
Timberlake
1926
[151,505,1912,1938]
Insecta
Encyrtidae
Gahaniella
Animalia
Hymenoptera
28
29
Arthropoda
genus
Type. USNM
Distribution.W (Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, Stanislaus) Host/habitat. Alichtensia argentina, Coccus hesperidum, Eulecanium perinflatum, Parthenolecanium corni, Saissetia coffeae, possibly as a hyperparasitoid
Remarks.Although Timberlake (1926)reared this species from P. corni, no definitive biological studies of this species have been conducted. One congener, G. tertia, is a hyperparasitoid of Planococcus citrivia Leptomastix dactylopii( Kerrich 1953), and a second, G. saissetiae Timberlake, 1926, has been recorded from several families of scales ( Noyes 2001) and is suspected of being hyperparasitic on Saissetia oleae( Compere 1939c), although Trjapitzin (2010)considered the entire genus was hyperparasitic. DeSantis (1989)reported the host of G. californicaas “Cochinilla blanda”: Noyes (2001)treated this host as a pseudococcid, but it is a common name for C. hesperidum(see DeSantis & Monetti 2008: 97).