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ADDITIONAL HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES NEWLY RECORDED FROM THE DARKSIDED CUTWORM, EUXOA MESSORIA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE), IN ONTARIO1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. H. Cheng
H. H. Cheng
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Delhi, Ontario N4B 2W9
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The author (1977) reported on 10 species of insect parasites that were reared from field-collected larvae or pupae of the darksided cutworm, Euxoa messoria (Harris), in Ontario. Of those, eight species had not been previously recorded from this host. During subsequent studies at Delhi, Ontario in 1976 and 1977, more than 3000 larvae of this cutworm were collected from rye and tobacco fields and reared in the laboratory, using methods previously described (Cheng 1977). From this work four more species of primary endoparasites were newly recorded, namely, Apanteles laeviceps Ashmead (Braconidae), Apanteles militaris Walsh (Braconidae), Campoletis sp. (Ichneumonidae), and Meteorus communis (Cresson) (Braconidae). Arenetra sp. reported in the earlier work appeared again and was determined to be A. rufipes vernalis Walley (Ichneumonidae).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 113 , Issue 8 , August 1981 , pp. 773 - 774
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1981

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