Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera)
Author
Zuparko, Robert L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4017.1.1
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Prionomitus
Mayr 1876
Hosts.
Hemiptera
:
Psyllidae
,
Triozidae
mitratus
(
Dalman 1820: 352
) (
Encyrtus
)
Type
.
NHRS
Distribution.
W (Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Los Angeles, Marin, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo
,
Sequoia
National Park)
Host/habitat.
Cacopsylla americana
,
C
.
bidens
,
C
.
crataegi
,
C
.
mali
,
C
. sp. nr.
media
,
C
.
melanoneura
,
C
.
peregrina
,
C
.
pyri
,
C
.
pyricola
,
C
.
ribesiae
,
Ceanothia essigi
,
C
.
insolita
,
Euglyptoneura fuscipennis
,
E
.
minuta
,
E
.
robusta
,
Livilla retamae
,
Pexopsylla cercocarpi
,
Psylla pyrisuga
,
Trioza beameri
;
NEW
:
Arytaina
sp. (EMEC),
Psylla alni
(UCRC),
Psylla floccosa
, P
. sp. (EMEC),
Remarks.
This is a Holarctic species, reported from several psyllid species in the western
United States
(
Jensen 1957
). Nevertheless, this species was imported from
Switzerland
into California in the 1960s in a biocontrol program against
Cacopsylla pyricola
(
Clausen 1978b
)
.
tiliaris
(
Dalman 1820: 171
) (
Encyrtus
)
[
New state record
] (CAS, EMEC, LACM, RLZC, SBMN, UCDC, UCRC)
Type
.
NHRS
Distribution.
W (Alameda, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Ventura)
Host/habitat.
Cacopsylla mali
,
C
.
melanoneura
,
C
.
peregrina
,
C
.
pyri
,
C
.
ulmi
;
NEW
:
Cacopsylla tenuata
(RLZC),
Psylla
sp. (EMEC)
Remarks.
This species has previously been reported only from the Palearctic Region.
Peck (1963)
noted it questionably occurred in the Nearctic Region, but this record appears to trace to Howard’s report of its presence in
St. Vincent
(
Riley
et al.
1894
), which apparently was based on a misidentification of
Psyllaephagus rotundiformis
(Howard) (
Noyes 1980
)
. This species has been present in the state since at least 1930, when two specimens were collected in Alameda County (UCRC).