Comperia Gomes 1942

Zuparko, Robert L., 2015, Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Zootaxa 4017 (1), pp. 1-126 : 22

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6116902
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scientific name	Comperia Gomes 1942
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Treatment

Comperia Gomes 1942 View in CoL View at ENA

Hosts. Blattodea : Blattellidae

merceti ( Compere 1938: 317) (Dicarnosis) View in CoL

Type. BMNH

Distribution. E (Alameda, Contra Costa, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, Stanislaus, Yolo)

Host/habitat. Supella longipalpa , Supella supellectilium

Remarks. This appears to be a tropical species that has become adventitiously established around the world. This species was imported into California using Hawaiian stock in a biocontrol programs against cockroaches in the late 1970s and was reported established ( Slater et al. 1981). However, there is a single specimen from Contra Costa County (EMEC) collected in 1957, indicating the species was probably already present in the state. Gomes (1942) reported Blattella germanica as a host, but Roth and Willis (1960) noted that this was not based on rearing records. Lawson (1954) reported that C. merceti was unable to attack Blatta orientalis and Periplaneta americana ootheca, but a single specimen (UCRC) was reportedly reared from a Periplaneta sp.

References

Compere, H. (1938) A report on some miscellaneous African Encyrtidae in the British Museum. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 29, 315 - 337. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 000748530003563 X

Gomes, J. G. (1942) Subsidos a sistematica a dos calcidideos brasileiros. Boletim da Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro, 2, 9 - 45.

Lawson, F. A. (1954) Observations on the biology of Comperia merceti (Compere) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 27,128 - 142.

Roth, L. M. & Willis, E. R. (1960) The biotic associations of cockroaches. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 141, 1 - 470.

Slater, A. J., Hurlbert, M. J. & Lewis, V. R. (1981) Biological control of brownbanded cockroach. California Agriculture, 34, 16 - 18.