The insect parasites of leafhoppers and related groups

Publication Type:Book Chapter
Year of Publication:1985
Authors:P. H. Freytag
Editor:L. R. Nault, Rodriguez J. G.
Book Title:The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers
Pagination:423-467
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons
City:New York
Keywords:agricultural entomology, hosts, natural enemies, parasites, Pipunculidae
Abstract:

This account of the insect parasites (and hyperparasites) of leafhoppers includes a summary of parasite groups (especially Halictophagidae, Pipunculidae and Dryinidae) of 22 subfamilies of Cicadellidae (and 3 related families) and a host-parasite list (with about 100 species of cicadellids parasitized by halictophagids, about 150 by pipunculids, about 200 by dryinids, about 60 by mymarids, about 30 by trichogrammatids and others by epipyropids, eulophids, aphelinids, encyrtids and diapriids).

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