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Scambus pterophori (Ashm.) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a New Parasite of the European Corn Borer, Pyrausta nubilalis (Hbn.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in Canada1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Marcel Hudon
Marcel Hudon
Affiliation:
Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory, St. Jean, Que.
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In late August, 1957, a parasitized second-generation pupa of Pyrausta nubilalis (Hbn.) was observed in silks of an immature corn ear in the experimental plots at St. Jean. The pupa was incubated at 75°F. in a petri dish, and two weeks later an ichneumonid parasite emerged and was identified by Mr. G. S. Walley, Entomology Division, Ottawa, as Scambus pterophori (Ashm.). Asecond generation of P. nubilalis is very unusual in the St. Jean area. This is apparently the first record of this ichneumonid as a parasite of P. nubilalis in Canada.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , February 1959 , pp. 128
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1959

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