A survey on hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Northwest Iran

Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam; Hossein Lotfalizadeh; Ehsan Rakhshani

Journal of Crop Protection (Sep 2014)

A survey on hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Northwest Iran

Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam,
Hossein Lotfalizadeh,
Ehsan Rakhshani

Affiliations

Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam: Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
Hossein Lotfalizadeh: Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tabriz, Iran.
Ehsan Rakhshani: Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Iran.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 369 – 376

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A survey was carried out on the hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini, 1860 in Ardabil province from 2012 to 2013. Two pteromalid species, including Pachyneuron solitarium (Hartig, 1838) and Asaphes suspensus (Nees, 1834) were reared from the mummified aphids. Both species are hyperparasitoid of P. spyrothecae via Monoctonia vesicarii Tremblay, 1991 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae). Pachyneuron solitarium is newly recorded from Iran.

Published in Journal of Crop Protection

ISSN: 2251-9041 (Print); 2251-905X (Online)
Publisher: University of Tarbiat Modares
Country of publisher: Iran, Islamic Republic of
LCC subjects: Agriculture
Website: https://jcp.modares.ac.ir/

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