Eurytoma iranicola (Hym.: Eurytomidae) as a gregarious ectoparasitoid of the rosaceous branch borer Osphranteria coerulescens (Col.: Cerambycidae) in Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Abbas Mohammadi Khoramabadi ¹ ()
Hossein Lotfalizadeh ² ()

Received: 2011-06-09 Accepted : 2011-11-10 Published : 2011-11-22

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Abstract :

In this study, Eurytoma iranicola, 2007  (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) was determined as a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of the Rosaceous branch borer Osphranteria coerulescens (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Iran. This biological data is new for this family of parasitoids.

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