Gonatocerus ashmeadi

Gonatocerus ashmeadi
	Gonatocerus ashmeadi
Scientific classification
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]}

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[1] 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.

[2] ttp://files.piercesdisease.org/proceedings/2002/2002_103-103.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

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Gonatocerus ashmeadi

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