Gonatocerus ashmeadi
| Gonatocerus ashmeadi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Mymaridae |
| Genus: | Gonatocerus |
| Species: | G. ashmeadi |
| Binomial name | |
| Gonatocerus ashmeadi Girault, 1915 | |
Gonatocerus ashmeadi is a species of fairyfly. Its natural range is Florida, Louisiana, northeastern Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina, eastern Texas, and southern and central California.[1][2]
It is used to control the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
References
- ^ Pilkington, Leigh J.; Hoddle, Mark S. (2006). "Reproductive and developmental biology of Gonatocerus ashmeadi (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), an egg parasitoid of Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)". Biological Control. 37 (3): 266–275. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2006.02.006.
- ^ http://files.piercesdisease.org/proceedings/2002/2002_103-103.pdf[permanent dead link]