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A new species of Paraphelinus, Perk., from British Guiana, with a discussion of the genus and the allied Aphelinus, Dalm.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

James Waterston
James Waterston
Affiliation:
Imperial Bureau of Entomology, London.
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During the past summer (1916) Mr. C. B. Williams has, on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad, been engaged in investigating the natural enemies of Tomaspis and its allies, in the hopes of finding some effective means of controlling the froghopper, Tomaspis saccharina, Dist., which in recent years has caused considerable damage to the sugar plantations of Trinidad. With this object Mr. Williams has made collections of minute parasitic Hymenoptera in the Island and the adjacent mainland of British Guiana, and this material has from time to time been forwarded to me for study. Mr. Williams has from the first been fully alive to the importance of securing any specimens of the egg-destroying Paraphelinus, Perk., and I am glad to find species of this interesting genus in the gatherings from both Trinidad and British Guiana. The literature dealing with Paraphelinus is scattered and perhaps inaccessible to those to whom it is most likely to prove serviceable. I have therefore, in some introductory notes, recapitulated the main facts in the life-history and host attachment and added a bibliography to the present paper.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1917 , pp. 43 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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