Descriptions and Records of parasitic Hymenoptera from British Guiana and the West Indies

1931 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Myers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
West Indies ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The West ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Parasitic Hymenoptera ◽  
Imperial Institute

The following notes are based almost entirely upon actual rearing records, the hosts in most cases being insects of economic importance. The greatest attention has been paid to parasites of the small moth-borers of sugar-cane (Diatraea spp.). The systematic work has been done entirely at the British Museum and would have been impossible without the facilities in literature and collections there, and the great help of Mr. D. S. Wilkinson and Dr. C. Ferrière, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Types of new species are in the British Museum.

scholarly journals NOTES ON THE GENUS ANERISTUS HOWARD WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (Hymenoptera: Chaleidoidea)

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Herbert L. Dozier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Scale Insects ◽  
The West ◽  
Great Economic Importance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Host Relationships ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Available Information

The purpose of this paper is to establish as clearly as possible the status of the genus Aneristus Howard, to assemble all the available information concerning the habits and host-relationships of its members, and to make known three new species from the West Indies. So far as known all the species of Aneristus are primary parasites of the non-diaspine Coccidae or soft scale insects and are of great economic importance.

scholarly journals Notes on Parasitic Hymenoptera

1923 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Waterston
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Natural Control ◽  
The West ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
The Past ◽  
Parasitic Hymenoptera

During the past fifteen years the attention of Economic Entomologists in Central America and the West Indies has been increasingly directed to the damage done by species of the genus Brassolis to the foliage of coconut and other palms. In some of the scattered papers (q.v. Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, 1913–22) dealing with these ravages one finds references to the natural control exercised by Hymenopterous parasites. So far as I am aware the only writers to mention by name any of these enemies are C.Schrottky (1909) and G. E. Bodkin (1917), who list four species between them. Since the spring of 1920 I have examined two small collections of Hymenopterous parasites of Brassolis from Trinidad and British Guiana respectively. In each of these the same one of Schrottky's species is represented, and in all I am now able to list seven species. Two of these have not been seen by me, and two more (Brachymeria and Spilochalcis) are probably recognisable from extant descriptions. In the case of the Telenomus it is hoped that the figures given may facilitate recongnition. Though Ashmead's description of this species is very incomplete, I have forborne for the present to supplement it, since the diagnosis of these minute parasites for any particular geographical area can be attempted best in a comparative key. only the Anastatus has been fully described.

NEW SPECIES OF DOLICHOPODIDAE FROM NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES

1930 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. van Duzee
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Tarsal Joint ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Posterior Pair ◽  
Snow White

Male: Length 2.6-3 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, legs and feet thickly white pruinose, but the ground color showing through; face moderately wide, wholly pollinose, this pollen yellow in the middle, reaching the orbits at the suture, sides of upper part narrowly, below the suture widely white pollinose, sonsetimes the yellow pollen covers most of upper part and extends onto the inner part of the palpi; palpi with snow white pollen, each nearly as large as upper part of face; antennae wholly yellow, small, arista whitish; orbital cilia white, rather long on the sides; occiput, front, thorax and abdomen reddish coppery, posterior margins of abdominal segments sometimes green ; bristles of thorax small, black; hairs of ahdomen very short, white; pleura and coxae black with ground color nearly concealed with white pollen, tips of coxae yellow; hypopygium small, with a long, straight, black appendage extending forward under the abdomen and small yellowish appendages inside of this long one; femora, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, last two joints of all tarsi blackish; the minute hairs on all femora and tibiae white, the small bristles on tibiae black; fore tibiae with a row of long white hairs on upper surface, which are as long as diameter of tibiae and extend to fourth tarsal joint, becoming shorter towards the end; apical joint of middle tarsi very slightly widened; pulvilli not enlarged ; joints of fore tarsi as 20-8-6-5-7 ; of middle ones as 32-14-9-6-6; joints of posterior pair as 25-19-11-6-7.

A description of six new species of the genus Cryptochaetum (Diptera-Agromyzidae) from East Africa and East Indies; together with a key to the adults and larvae of all known species

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Subject

The material here described was mostly obtained as a result of a period of study and travel in East Africa in 1939. Two of the species were reared from Coccidae of the genus Aspidoproctus at Amani, Tanganyika Territory, and their life, history is the subject of an accompanying paper. I am greatly indebted to Dr F. W. Edwards, F.R.S., for allowing me to describe the remarkable species collected by him on Ruwenzori, Uganda, in 1935. I am also most grateful to Dr R. H. Le Pelley of the Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Nairobi, and Dr E. A. Lewis of the Veterinary Research Laboratory, Kabete, Nairobi, for other valuable new material. In addition, The Imperial Institute of Entomology has kindly allowed me to examine and describe material from Uganda in their possession which had been erroneously identified as Cryptochaetum iceryae (Will.). Type specimens of all species will be deposited in the British Museum.

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