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Issue: Vol. 3268 No. 1: 13 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3268.1.2
Page range: 16–28
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 4

An unusual occurrence of multiparasitism by two genera of Strepsiptera (Insecta) in a mango leafhopper Idioscopus clypealis (Lethierry) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Philippines

Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Dole Stanfilco, Socorro St. Belisario Heights Subd. Lanang Davao City 8000, Philippines
Crop Protection Cluster, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Banos College, Laguna 4031, Philippines
Hemiptera Strepsiptera Halictophagus Callipharixenos Philippines

Abstract

The mango leafhopper Idioscopus clypealis (Lethierry) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Philippines is parasitized bytwo genera of Strepsiptera, Halictophagus and Callipharixenos. A redescription of the male Halictophagus fulmeki(Hofeneder), a new record and description of its conspecific female and a key to Halictophagus in the Philippines aregiven, and a new species of female, Callipharixenos philippines sp. n. is described. The inclusion of the family Callipharixenidae as a subfamily Callipharixeninae within the family Halictophagidae is discussed.

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