Diversinervus elegans

Taxonavigation

Diversinervus sp., possibly D. elegans (female, length about 1.4 mm)

Taxonavigation: Chalcidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Encyrtidae
Subfamilia: Encyrtinae
Genus: Diversinervus
Species: Diversinervus elegans
Synonyms (3): D. bicristatus – D. intermedius – D. meridionalis

Name

• Diversinervus elegans Silvestri, 1915

References

Primary references

• Silvestri, F. 1915: Contributo all conoscenza degli insetti dell'olivo dell'Eritrea e dell'Africa meridionalei. Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola superiore d'agricoltura in Portici, 9: 240–334. BHL [first availability, see p. 304, and fig. LIX]

selected references

• Bartlett, B.R.; Medved, R.A. 1966: The biology and effectiveness of Diversinervus elegans (Encyrtidae: Hymenoptera), an imported parasite of lecaniine scale insects in California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 59(5): 974–976. abstract only seen
• Compere, H. 1931: A revision of the genus Diversinervus Silvestri, encyrtid parasites of coccids (Hymenoptera). University of California publications in entomology, 5: 233–245. docstoc PDF [see p. 241, and figs. 3, a, b]
• Lampson, L.J.; Morse, J.G. 1992: A survey of black scale, Saissetia oleae (Hom.: Coccidae) parasitoids (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) in southern California. Entomophaga, 37(3): 373–390. DOI: 10.1007/BF02373111
• Trjapitzin, V.A.; Ruíz Cancino, E. 1998: Diversinervus elegans Silvestri (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae), un parasitoide de cóccidos (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) en México [Diversinervus elegans Silvestri (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of coccids (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) in Mexico.] Ceiba, Honduras, 38(2): 151–155. [not seen]

Links

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