@article {1789, title = {A New Emerald Ash Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Parasitoid Species of Spathius Nees (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) From the Russian Far East and South Korea}, journal = {Annals of the Entomological Society of America}, volume = {105}, year = {2012}, pages = {165-178}, abstract = {

A new emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) ectoparasitoid species, Spathius\ galinae Belokobylskij \& Strazanac (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae), is described from the\ Russian Far East and South Korea. Molecular evidence supports that Russian and Korean specimens\ represent a single species and are closely related to two Asian species (S. agrili and S. generosus) that\ belong to the S. exarator species group. The morphological variation of adult S. galinae and its immature\ stages, distribution, life history, and relation to similar Asian Spathius species are discussed. The\ distribution of the new species may indicate this is one of the more cold hardy emerald ash borer\ parasitoids. A brief review of hymenopteran parasitoids of emerald ash borer and new host record,\ the first for Atanycolus nigriventris Vojnovskaja-Krieger (Braconidae: Braconinae), is reported.

}, keywords = {Agrilus planipennis, Atanycolus nigriventris, biocontrol, Ectoparasitoid, Spathius galinae n. sp.}, doi = {10.1603/AN11140}, author = {S.A. Belokobylskij and Yurchenko, G.I. and Strazanac, J.S. and A. Zaldivar-Riveron and Mastro, V.} }