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Mesobraconoides psolopterus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a larval parasitoid of the white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Awad A. Sarhan  and
Donald L.J. Quicke
Awad A. Sarhan
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
Donald L.J. Quicke
Affiliation:
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Abstract

A new genus Mesobraconoides Sarhan & Quicke is described for the species M. psolopterus (Wilkinson) comb. n. (type species) and M. truncatus (Szépligeti) comb. n. Both species have been transferred from Mesobracon. M. psolopterus is here recorded from Sierra Leone as a parasitoid of the pyralid, white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, widespread in the Afrotropical region. M. psolopterus is redescribed and illustrated and a key provided to separate it from M. truncatus.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 217 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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