906 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Biology: Morrill and Back, 1912. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 102: 8. — Poinar, 1964. Jour. 

 Ent. 57: 382. 

 meritoria Gahan. Fla. w. to Calif. Host: Trialeurodes floridensis (Quaint.). 



Encarsia meritoria Gahan, 1927. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 71 (4): 19-20. 6,9. 

 pergandiella Howard. N. Y. s. to D. C, w. to 111., Wash., Calif. Host: Aleuroplatiis coronatus 

 (Quaint.), Trialeurodes abutilonea (Hald.), T. vaporarioruni (Westw.). 

 Encarsia pergandiella Howard, 1907. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Bui. 12 (4): 78. 9. 

 Encarsia versicolor Girault, 1908. Psyche 15 (3): 53. 6, 9. 



Biology: Garman, 1922. Ky. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 241: 92-93. — Dysart, 1966. Ent. Soc. Amer., 

 Ann. 59 (1): 28-33. -Gerling, 1966. Canad. Ent. 98 (7): 707-724. 

 quaintancei Howard. D. C. w. to 111. Host: Aleyrodes sp. on Polygonum. 



Encarsia quaintancei Howard, 1907. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 12 (4): 79. 9. 



Biology: Dysart, 1966. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 59 (1): 28-33. 

 variegata Howard. Fla. Host: Paraleyrodes perseae (Quaint.). 



Encarsia variegata Howard, 1908. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 10 (1-2): 64. 



Biology: Morrill and Back, 1912. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 102: 8. 

 Genus LOUNSBURYIA Compere and Annecke 



Lounsburyia Compere and Annecke, 1961. So. Africa Ent. Soc, Jour. 24 (1): 28-29. 

 Type-species: Coccopliagus trifa.sciatus Compere. Orig. desig. 



This African genus of coccophagines consists of only a few species which are similar to Coc- 

 copliagus. The type-species was imported into California for the biological control of the black 

 scale, Saissetia oleae (Oliv.). 



trifasciata (Compere). Calif. Introduced. Host: Saissetia oleae (Oliv.). 



Coccopliagus trifasciatus Compere, 1925. Calif. Univ., Pubs. Ent. 3 (3): 311-313. <5, 9. 



Taxonomy: Compere, 1931. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 78 (7): 1-132. —Compere and Annecke, 

 1961. So. Africa Ent. Soc, Jour. 24 (1): 28-32. 



Biology: Cendana, 1937. Calif. Univ., Pubs. Ent. 6 (14): 372-379. —Flanders, 1942. Ecology 23: 

 120. 



Genus PHYSCUS Howard 



Pkyscus Howard. 1895. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Tech. Ser. 1: 43. 



Type-species: Coccopliagus varicornis Howard. Monotypic. 

 Encyrtophysctis De Santis, 1948. La Plata Mus. Rev., Zool. (n. s.) 5: 192-193. 



Type-species: Physcus flavoflagellatus De Santis. Orig. desig. 



Pkyscus consists of about 40 species distributed throughout the world. Females are internal 

 parasites of scale insects; males develop as hyperparasites of females of their own species 

 (sometimes called facultative adelphoparasitism) or on other primary parasites (sometimes 

 called heterotrophic arrhenoparasitism). 



Taxonomy: Howard, 1914. Ent. Soc Wash., Proc 16 (2): 82-84. — Mercet, 1930. Rev. de Biol. 

 Forest, y Limnologia 2 (B): 61-63. — De Santis, 1940. La Plata Univ. Nac, Fac Agr. Rev. 

 24 (3): 29-44. — Erdos, 1958. Folia Ent. Hungarica (n. s.) 11 (5): 85. —Compere and 

 Annecke, 1961. So. Africa Ent. Soc, Jour. 24 (1): 20-26. — Agarwal, 1964. Indian Acad. Sci., 

 Proc. (B) 60: 320-324. — Jashnosh, 1968. Ent. Rev. 47 (1): 117-124. — Jashnosh, 1973. Ent. 

 Rev. 52 (4): 578-585. —Graham, 1976. Syst. Ent. 1 (2): 144. 



Biology: Jashnosh, 1968. Ent. Rev. 47 (1): 117-124. —Fisher, 1961. Jour. Econ. Ent. 54 (3): 



444. -Williams, 1971. Bui. Ent. Res. 61 (3): 463-484. 

 flaviventris Howard. Tex. Ecology: Associated with Antonina gram in is (Mask.). Introduced. 



Physcus flaviventris Howard, 1910. Ent. News 21 (4): 162. 9. 

 fulvus Compere and Annecke. Calif. Introduced. Host: Lepidosaphes beckii (Newm.). 



Physcus fulvus Compere and Annecke, 1961. So. Africa Ent. Soc, Jour. 24 (1): 21-23. 6, 9. 



