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Romanian Journal of Biology - Zoology
ROMANIAN ACADEMY |
CERAPHRONIDAE AND MEGASPILIDAE (HYMENOPTERA: CERAPHRONOIDEA) - THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ROMANIA
IRINA TEODORESCU
Abstract:
The aim of the present study is the better knowledge of Ceraphronidae and Megaspilidae in Romania, based on personally papers previously published and on a new data obtained during the last 10 years. In Romania, before my first published papers (Teodorescu, 1967-1972), Ceraphronoidea superfamily has practically unknown. Our current list includes a number of 64 species (21 of Ceraphronidae and 43 of Megaspilidae), of which 59 species (20 of Ceraphronidae and 39 of Megaspilidae) and five genera (two of Ceraphronidae and three of Megaspilidae) were mentioned for the first time in the Romanian fauna. New hosts have also been identified for some Dendrocerus species. A special attention was paid to some species of Dendrocerus, as secondary parasitoids (hyperparasitoids), so tertiary consumers, and of other Dendrocerus species, as primary parasitoids, so secondary consumers. Some comments are added regarding the role of Dendrocerus species (with validity for all parasitoids) in populations control and in natural balance.
Citation:
IRINA TEODORESCU, 2020. CERAPHRONIDAE AND MEGASPILIDAE (HYMENOPTERA: CERAPHRONOIDEA) - THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ROMANIA, Romanian Journal of Biology - Zoology, 65(1-2): 35–54.
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