First record of Gonatocerus litoralis (Haliday) (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from Anoplotettix putoni Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)


Submitted: 5 June 2013
Accepted: 24 September 2013
Published: 20 December 2013
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  • G. Viggiani Laboratorio di Entomologia - Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (NA), Italy.
The mymarid Gonatocerus litoralis (Haliday) is recorded for the first time as an egg parasitoid of the leafhopper Anoplotettix putoni Ribaut. A study of the main morphological characters shows unusual variation in distribution of the multiporous plate sensilla on the antenna and relative length of the ovipositor. The parasitoid overwinters as an immature within the host egg and the adult emerges from late April to early July, which coincides with oviposition by the leafhopper into grapevine bark.

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Laboratorio di Entomologia – Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

Viggiani, G. (2013). First record of Gonatocerus litoralis (Haliday) (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from Anoplotettix putoni Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 45(3), e21. https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2013.e21

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