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Elachertodomyia phloetribi (Ashmead)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Colotrechinae, Genus: Elachertodomyia)

Secodes phloetribi Ashmead 1896. Holotype: in United States Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. Type Locality: Virginia, U.S.A.

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution

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U.S.A. (Connecticut,  New Jersey, Virginia)

Biology

Hosts: Chramesus hicoriae (Scylotinae), Lixus musculus (Curculioninae), Phloetribus frontalis (Scylotinae), Pseudopityophtorus minutissimus (Scylotinae)

Reference

Ashmead, W.H. 1896. Description of new parasitic Hymenoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 23:179-234.

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