scholarly journals Survey of the Aphid Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) of Costa Rica with Information on Their Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea): Plant Associations

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Zamora Mejías ◽  
Paul E. Hanson ◽  
Petr Starý
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Exotic Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lysiphlebus Testaceipes ◽  
Aphidius Colemani ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Aphid Parasitoids

Species of Aphidiinae (Braconidae) have never been surveyed in Central America. Here we present the results of an initial inventory of the aphidiine species of Costa Rica and record the presence of ten species (four undetermined), in six genera. The material was obtained by rearing aphids from both crop and noncrop plants throughout the country. In total 2832 aphidiine specimens were reared from 24 species of aphids.Aphidius colemaniandLysiphlebus testaceipes, which are probably not native to Costa Rica, accounted for nearly 90% of all the specimens. Many of the other aphidiines are also probably exotic species, as are most of their host aphids.

THE SEMIAQUATIC GENUS TEGEOCRANELLUS (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: AMERONOTHROIDEA) OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

1997 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
The Other ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Character Analysis ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mite Genus

AbstractSpecies of the oribatid mite genus Tegeocranellus from North and Central America are discussed, and immatures are described for the first time. Six new species are described and keyed: Tegeocranellus alas from Costa Rica, T. barbarae from Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, T. kethleyi from Alabama and Mississippi, T. mississippii from Louisiana and Texas, T. muscorum known from Ontario to Florida, and T. mediolamellatus from Guatemala. Descriptions of T. alas, T. barbarae, T. mediolamellatus, and T. muscorum are based on adults and immatures, and those of the other two species on adults only. I expand the generic diagnosis to include information on the apheredermous, plicate immatures, and present a character analysis hypothesizing that the monogeneric family Tegeocranellidae is a member of the Ameronothroidea, closely related to Selenoribatidae and Fortuyniidae.

scholarly journals A Contribution to Thrips-Plant Associations Records (Insecta: Thysanoptera) in Costa Rica and Central America

2011 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcides Sánchez-Monge ◽  
Axel Retana-Salazar ◽  
Steven Brenes ◽  
Renán Agüero
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Plant Associations

Olfactory response of two aphid parasitoids, Lysiphlebus testaceipes and Aphidius colemani, to aphid-infested plants from a distance

2004 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirella Lo Pinto ◽  
Eric Wajnberg ◽  
Stefano Colazza ◽  
Christine Curty ◽  
Xavier Fauvergue
Keyword(s):  
Olfactory Response ◽  
Lysiphlebus Testaceipes ◽  
Aphidius Colemani ◽  
Aphid Parasitoids

scholarly journals Geographic Variation in Song of The Bright-Rumped Attila (Tyrannidae: Attila Spadiceus): Implications for Species Status

The Auk ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Leger ◽  
D. James Mountjoy
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
South America ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Central America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central American ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Abstract Bright-rumped Attilas (Attila spadiceus) have two song forms, one sung primarily at dawn, the other primarily during the rest of the day. Both songs consist of a main phrase and an optional terminal phrase. Our recordings of dawn and day songs in Costa Rica were very similar to those made elsewhere in Central America. However, Central American dawn songs were significantly different than dawn songs from South America, both in terms of quantitative features (temporal and frequency variables) and qualitative characteristics (note shape). Day songs from Central and South America were similar. Song differences suggest that the Bright-rumped Attila may be two species, one in Central America, the other in South America.

scholarly journals New records of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) from Colombia

Check List ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1083-1091
Author(s):  
Laura Marcela Martínez-Chávez ◽  
Diana Nataly Duque-Gamboa ◽  
Nelson Toro-Perea
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Lysiphlebus Testaceipes ◽  
Aphidius Colemani ◽  
Aphidius Matricariae ◽  
Aphid Parasitoids ◽  
Valle Del Cauca ◽  
Aphelinus Varipes

Aphid parasitoids have been recorded in many countries around the globe, however records in Colombia are few. Here, five primary parasitoids species, Aphidius platensis Brèthes, 1913, Aphidius funebris Mackauer, 1961, Aphidius matricariae Haliday, 1834, Aphelinus varipes (Förster, 1841), Aphelinus paramali Zehavi & Rosen, 1989, and two hyperparasitoids species, Syrphophagus aphidivorus (Mayr, 1876) and Pachyneuron aphidis (Bouché, 1834) are newly recorded in Colombia. Two other primary parasitoids, Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson, 1880) and Aphidius colemani Viereck, 1912 are newly recorded from the department of Valle del Cauca. 

scholarly journals Occurrence and parasitism of aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on cultivars of irrigated oat (Avena spp.) in São Carlos, Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlio Cesar Ronquim ◽  
Josué Marques Pacheco ◽  
Carlos Cesar Ronquim
Keyword(s):  
Rhopalosiphum Padi ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diaeretiella Rapae ◽  
Lysiphlebus Testaceipes ◽  
Aphidius Colemani ◽  
Parasitic Hymenoptera ◽  
Parasitism Rates ◽  
Hymenopteran Parasitoids

The interactions between aphids and their Hymenopteran parasitoids on irrigated oats as well as the response of different cultivars of cereals regarding the resistance to these aphids and the influence on the host/parasitoid relationships were studied during two years in São Carlos, Brazil. Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) was the predominant aphid observed throughout the study, while the other species were rarely found. Five species of parasitic Hymenoptera were found: three primary parasitoids, Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson), Aphidius colemani (Viereck) and Diaeretiella rapae (M'Intosh) and two hyperparasitoids, Syrphophagus aphidivorus (Myer) and Alloxysta brassicae (Ashmead). The UPF 86081 cultivar presented significant results regarding lower Rhopalosiphum padi contamination and higher aphid parasitism rates than those observed on some other cultivars. No significant effect on the percentage variation of parasitoid emergence on the mummified aphids was observed throughout this study.

Rediscovery of Choroterpes atramentum in Costa Rica, type species of Tikuna new genus (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae), and its role in the "Great American Inter-change"

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 932 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRY M. SAVAGE ◽  
R. WILLS FLOWERS ◽  
WENDY PORRAS V.
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South American ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Geological Formation

A new genus, Tikuna, is described based on recent collections of adults and nymphs of Choroterpes atramentum Traver from western Costa Rica. All recent collections are from streams on or near the Nicoya Complex, the oldest geological formation in Lower Central America. Tikuna belongs to a lineage of South American Atalophlebiinae (Leptophlebiidae: Ephemeroptera) whose origin is hypothesized to have been in the late Cretaceous–early Tertiary. Some implications of the distribution of Tikuna for theories on the origin of Costa Rica’s biota are discussed.

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