Status - Distribution in general

Status 

Native

Present in: 

AFR, AUS, IND, NEA, NEO, PAL

Distribution within Cyprus: 

Precise distribution within Cyprus is unknown.

First record from Cyprus: 

Goolsby et al. (2000)

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Ecology - Associates

Ecology

Parasitoid

Associates in general

A parasitoid of numerous species of Aleyrodidae and 1 species of the family Coccidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) (Noyes 2019).

Known associates from Cyprus

Bemisia tabaci.

Conservation

IUCN Red List Category

(NE) DD LC NT VU EN CR EX

Not Evaluated

Conservation measures in place/needed

No measures in place.

Threats

No threats identified.

Presence within protected areas

Unknown.

References

Goolsby JA Ciomperlik MA, Kirk AA, Jones WA, Legaspi BC jr, Ruiz RA, Vacek DC, Wendel LE (2000) Predictive and empirical evaluation for parasitoids of Bemisia tabaci (Biotype 'B'), based on morphological and molecular systematics. Hymenoptera evolution, biodiversity and biological control pp.356 (Eds: Austin, A.D.; Dowton, M.) CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.

Hoelmer K, Goolsby J (2002) Release, establishment and monitoring of Bemisia tabaci natural enemies in the United States. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, Honolulu, Hawaii, 14-18 January 2002 pp.59 (Ed: Driesche, R.G. van) United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, USA.

Noyes JS (2019) Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids

Suh SJ, Evans GA (2015) Aphelinids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) of Unaspis euonymi (Comstock) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Korea. Korean Journal of Applied Entomology 54(2): 283.