funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFC0501503);the Fundamental ResearchFunds for theCentral Non-profit Research Instituteof theCAF(CAFYBB2017SZ003).
To investigate the natural parasitoid enemies of Sphaerolecanium prunastri,a scale insect which harms wild fruit forests in western Tianshan,Xinjiang,branches seriously damaged by S.prunastri were collected and cultur...
This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program;2013CB127600).We are grateful to all staff and students in the Entomology Department,College of Plant Protection,Yunnan Agricultural University,China and the Key Laboratory of Applied Entomology,Northwest A&F University,China for their assistance.
Aphelinus asychis is an important aphid endoparasitoid.Under field and greenhouse conditions,high temperature is one of the factors limiting the application of A asychis for biological pest control.To explore the pote...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31470652)
Aphytis tridentatus Gao and Li sp. nov. is described and illustrated from southwest China, and A. bangalorensis Rosen and DeBach is newly recorded from China. New distributional data for A. chionaspis Ren are also pro...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31101495);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2012J01084);the Commonwealth Industry Scientific Research Fund, China (201103002)
The genus Protaphelinus Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) is recorded for the first time from China and Protaphelinus nikolskajae (Yasnosh) is redescribed in detail and illustrated by macrophotography. This is ...
Fitness and efficacy of Encarsia sophia (Girault & Dodd) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) as a biological control agent was compared on two species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) hosts, the relatively smaller...
Nine novel microsatellite markers are presented for Aphelinus mali, a parasitoid of the woolly apple aphid Eriosoma lanigerum. Loci were characterized for 28 individuals from a single orchard in central Chile. Seven l...
Several species of Aphelinus have been introduced to the US from the Old World for biological control of the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Modvilko). Reproductive incompatibility has been observed among popu...
This research was funded by Tianjin City Science & Technology Training Project (No. 043121811), South Tianjin National Science & Technology Demonstration District Special Project (No. 043124311), and the General Project of Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No. 05YFJMJC07100). We would like to thank G. A. Evans CUSDA-APHIS, BeltsviUe, MD, USA) and J. Huang (Fujian Agricultural & Forestry University, Fuzhou, China) for identification of the parasitoid. We would also like to thank W. J. Sun, Director of South Tianjin National Sci- ence & Technology Demonstration District, for his support.
We conducted three experiments for management of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) biotype' B' on tomatoes under greenhouse conditions: (i) vertically placing yellow sticky cards either parallel or perpendicular to to...
The project was supported by the Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Funds for ScientificResearch Initiation (LRZ96017) and Korea Science and Engineering Foundation
The present paper deals with the systematic study on the genus Aphytis Howard from South Korea. Five species of Aphytis are recognized, including one new species (Aphytis albus sp. nov.) and four new records (A. diasp...
Coccophagus scutellaris (Dalman) is one of the specific parasitoids that attack soft scale insects in Egypt. In the present study, C. scutellaris was reared from 6 species of soft scale insects. These are Cero...