Gonatocerus triguttatus
Appearance
Gonatocerus triguttatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Mymaridae |
Genus: | Gonatocerus |
Species: | G. triguttatus
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Binomial name | |
Gonatocerus triguttatus Girault, 1916 [1]
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Gonatocerus triguttatus is a species of fairyfly. It is an egg parasitoid of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis.[2] It was originally described from Caroni County, Trinidad.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b A. A. Girault (1916). "New miscellaneous chalcidoid Hymenoptera with notes on described species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 9 (3): 291–308.
- ^ Leigh J. Pilkington & Mark S. Hoddle (2007). "Predictions of invasion success of Gonatocerus triguttatus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), an egg parasitoid of Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California using life table statistics and degree–day values". Biological Control. 42 (1): 9–15. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2007.04.009.