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Issue: Vol. 3753 No. 4: 8 Jan. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.4.8
Page range: 391–397
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

A new phytophagous eulophid wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) that feeds within leaf buds and cones of Pinus massoniana

Department of Plant Protection, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Department of Plant Protection, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, Zhejiang, 311400, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Aprostocetus economic importance plant host

Abstract

Aprostocetus pinus sp. nov. (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) is newly described as a leaf bud and microstrobilus pest of Pinus massoniana (Pinales: Pinaceae), an important afforestation species in southeast China. Both sexes of the parasitoid are described and illustrated.