SIPHONINUS PHILLYREAE (HALIDAY) (HEMIPTERA: STERNORRHYNCHA: ALEYRODIDAE) AND ITS PARASITOID, ENCARSIAINARON (WALKER) (HYMENOPTERA: APHELINIDAE): TWO NEW RECORDS OF INSECTS FOR MEXICO

摘要

During the last eight years, the author has been studying and rearing parasitic wasps of the family Aphelinidae in Mexico. The most common hosts of aphelin-ids belong to the Aleyrodidae, Diaspididae, Coccidae but some species parasitize Aphididae, Pseudococcidae, and other Hemiptera. As a result of this work, much more information is now known regarding the biodiversity of parasitic wasps and their host-relationships in Mexico. Thirty new species of Aphelinidae, Encyrti-dae, and Eulophidae have beendescribed from Mexico by Myartseva and Ruiz-Cancino, 2000; Myartseva, et al., 2004) and several new distribution records of exotic species of parasitic wasps in Mexico or in separate states (Coronado Blanco et al., 2005) have been documented. The numberof species of Aphelinidae known to occur in Mexico increased from 74 species in 2000 to 95 species in 2004.