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Uninvited pests of an unwelcomed tree: a survey on alien chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with eucalyptus trees in Cyprus
- Source :
- BioInvasions Records. 11:390-400
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC), 2022.
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Abstract
- A five-month survey on Eucalyptus spp., one of the most commonly planted trees in Cyprus, was undertaken in Limassol and Akrotiri in urban, rural and protected habitats. Two alien gall-inducing Eucalyptus wasps: Leptocybe invasa Fisher and La Salle, 2004 and Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead, 1900) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) were recorded for the first time from Cyprus. In addition, three new alien parasitoids: Stethynium ophelimi (Huber, 2006) (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), Closterocerus chamaeleon (Girault, 1922) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and Megastigmus lawsoni Doğanlar and Hassan, 2010 (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), were reared from O. maskelli and L. invasa galls. The distribution, introduction and management actions for Eucalyptus spp. and their alien Chalcidoidea associates are discussed.
Details
- ISSN :
- 22421300
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BioInvasions Records
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5724412c82de789efb49e8a8363304a9