Rodrigues, W.C., & Cassino, P.C.R. 2012 Parasitóides Associados a Cochonilhas e Aleirodídeos (Sternorrhyncha) de Plantas Cítricas no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. EntomoBrasilis 5 (1): 33-36

Notes: With the purpose of knowing the parasitids of scales and whiteflies, associates to the citrus plants in Rio de Janeiro State, leaves were collected containing phytoparasites: Aleurothrixus floccosus (Maskell), Tetraleurodes (=Aleurotrachelus) cruzi (Cassino), Paraleyrodes bondari Peracchi, Coccus viridis (Green), Crysomphalus ficus (Ashmead), Orthezia praelonga (Douglas) and Pinnaspis aspidistrae (Signoret). Other phytoparasites were eliminated, and each leaf contained only species of phytoparasite, so that parasitoids could be associated to that one species. The leaves were incubated for a period of 25 days, when parasitism was observed only in A. floccosus, P. aspidistrae, C. viridis and T. cruzi, and parasitoids of this the latter were not identified because the number of specimens was minimal. Parasiting A. floccosus: Arrhenophagus sp., Cales sp., Encarsia sp. (1), Eretmocerus sp., Signiphora sp. (1), Signiphora sp. (2), Signiphora sp. (3) and a species of the family Platygasteridae. Parasiting P. aspidistrae: Arrhenophagus sp., Cales sp., Encarsia sp. (2) and Pteroptrix sp. Some species are associated either to A. floccosus or to P. aspidistrae. It was verified that parasitism by Arrhenophagus sp. and the species of the family Platygasteridae in A. floccosus and by Arrhenophagus sp. and Pteroptrix sp. in P. aspidistrae, are new records for Rio de Janeiro State.