Gahaniella Timberlake 1926

Zuparko, Robert L., 2015, Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Zootaxa 4017 (1), pp. 1-126 : 29-30

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scientific name	Gahaniella Timberlake 1926
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Hosts. Primary or hyperparasitoid of Hemiptera : Asterolecaniidae , Coccidae , Ortheziidae , Pseudococcidae californica Timberlake 1926: 26

Type. USNM

Distribution. W (Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, Stanislaus)

Host/habitat. Alichtensia argentina , Coccus hesperidum , Eulecanium perinflatum , Parthenolecanium corni , Saissetia coffeae , possibly as a hyperparasitoid

Remarks. Although Timberlake (1926) reared this species from P. corni , no definitive biological studies of this species have been conducted. One congener, G. tertia , is a hyperparasitoid of Planococcus citri via Leptomastix dactylopii ( Kerrich 1953) , and a second, G. saissetiae Timberlake, 1926 , has been recorded from several families of scales ( Noyes 2001) and is suspected of being hyperparasitic on Saissetia oleae ( Compere 1939c) , although Trjapitzin (2010) considered the entire genus was hyperparasitic. De Santis (1989) reported the host of G. californica as “Cochinilla blanda”: Noyes (2001) treated this host as a pseudococcid, but it is a common name for C. hesperidum (see De Santis & Monetti 2008: 97).

References

De Santis, L. 1989. Catalago de los himenopteros calcidoides (Hymenoptera) al sur de los Estados Unidos, Segundo suplemento. Acta Entomologica Chilena, 15, 9 - 90.

Compere, H. (1939 c) The enemy insects of the black scale, Saissetia oleae (Bern.) in South Africa. University of California Publications in Entomology, 7, 75 - 90.

De Santis, L. & Monetti, N. C. (2008) Lista de Himenopteros parasitoids y depredadores de los insectos de Argentina: primer suplemento. In: Llorente-Bousquets, J. & Lanteri. A. (Eds.), Contribuciones taxonomicas en ordenes de insectos hiperdiversos. III Reunion annual de la Red Iberoamericana de Biogeografia y Entomologia Sistematica: La Plata, Argentina; Diciembre de 2006. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, pp. 91 - 139.

Kerrich, G. J. (1953) Report on Encyrtidae associated with mealybugs on cacao in Trinidad, and on some other species related thereto. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 44, 789 - 810. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300024731

Noyes, J. S. (2001) Interactive catalogue of world Chalcidoidea, Taxapad CD. Vancouver, Canada.

Timberlake, P. H. (1926) Miscellaneous new chalcid-flies of the hymenopterous family Encyrtidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 69, 1 - 34. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.69 - 2629.1

Trjapitzin, V. A. (2010) A review of the genus Gahaniella Timberlake, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) with description of a new species from Mexico. Russian Entomological Journal, 19, 245 - 248.