Encarsia agona, Otim and Polaszek, 2025

Polaszek, A., Otim, M. H., Briscoe, A., Court, L., Macfadyen, S., Schmidt, S. & Geng, H., 2025, Morphological and molecular description, and draft mitogenome Encarsia species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), a parasitoid tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on cassava, Journal of Natural History 59 (41 - 44), pp. 2441-2461 : 2442

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2534164

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F7812-CF58-FFB4-39CC-FB5D7B267924

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Encarsia agona
status

 

Encarsia agona collection and rearing

The initial collection method involved collecting parasitised puparia of the B. tabaci species-complex cassava leaves and placing them in Petri dishes, as described by Otim et al. (2005). Emerged adult were preserved in 70% ethanol. As part of the African Cassava Whitefly Project (ACWP), more were reared and persevered in 95% ethanol for both morphological and molecular characterisation

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Aphelinidae

Genus

Encarsia

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