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Development, Behaviour, and Descriptions of Immature Stages of Spilochalcis side (Walk.) (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Alfred P. Arthur
Alfred P. Arthur
Affiliation:
Entomology Laboratory, Belleville, Ontario
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The life-history, habits, and development of Spilochalcis side (Walk.) (torvina Cress.) were investigated at Belleville during studies on the parasites of needle miners, Recurvaria spp., attacking lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.

Burks (1940) recorded this species as a parasite of species of the following families of Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Gelechiidae, Eucosmidae, Glyphipterygidac, Plutellidae, Ypononleutidae, Coleophoridae, and Lyonetiidae. He also recorded it from Coleoptera (Curculionidae) and from Hymenoptera (Ichneumonidae and Braconidae). Doner (1936) stated that it parasitized small numbers of pupae of the cherry casebearer, Coleophora pruniella Clem., each year from 1930 to 1933 at the University of Wisconsin Experiment Station at Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. It was reared at Belleville on pupae of Depressaria heracliana (L.), Anagasta kühniella (Zell.), Galleria mellonella L., and Pyrausta nubilalis (Hbn.) (Lepidoptera); in the cocoons of Apanteles atalantae (Pack.), A. congregatus (Say), and A. glomeratus (L.) (Hymenoptera); and in an unidentified coleopterous casebearer.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 90 , Issue 10 , October 1958 , pp. 590 - 595
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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