The immature stages of Chelonus inanitus (L.), a parasite of the Cotton Leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (BOISD.), in Egypt (Hym., Braconidae)

Laboratory rearing of the solitary egg-larval parasitoid, Chelonus oculator Panzer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on a newly recorded factitious host Plodia interpunctella (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

“…Chelonus inanitus (L.), one of the most effective parasitoids of the cotton pest Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd. ), was successfully reared on Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Hafez et al 1980). Chelonus sp.…”

Screening of tomato cultivars against leafminer, Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) infesting tomato in mid-hills of Meghalaya, India

“…The larva of Chelonus sp.was creamy white in colour and cylindrical or spindle in shape (Christa et al, 1994) (Figure 1). The cylindrical shaped cocoon was constructed of fine white silken threads secreted by the silk glands of the last instar larva and later stage turned into brown colour (Hafez et al, 1980) Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.…”

Spodophagus, a new genus of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera), for an important parasite of Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Madagascar

“…Laboratory studies have also been carried out to determine the biology of the parasitoids. They involved C. inamtus (Hegazi et al, 1974;Rechav & Orion, 1975;Rechav, 1978aRechav, , 1978bHafez et al, 1980;1981a, 1981bKolaib et al, 1987), M. rufiventris (Hammad et al, 1966;Altahtawy et al, 1972Altahtawy et al, , 1976aAltahtawy et al, , 1976bHegazi et al, 1977;Tawfik et al, 1981aTawfik et al, , 1981bHegazi et al, 1982Hegazi et al, , 1984Hegazi & Shabaan, 1984;Hegazi & Fiihrer, 1985;Hegazi et al, 1986;Ibrahim, 1987;Hegazi et al, 1990Hegazi et al, , 1991, B. hebetor (Gerling & Rotary, 1973) and Zele spp. (Ibrahim et al, 1987;Kolaib, 1987).…”