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A survey on hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Northwest Iran
Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam1 , Hossein Lotfalizadeh2 , Ehsan Rakhshani 3
1- Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
2- Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tabriz, Iran.
3- Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Iran.
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A survey was carried out on the hyperparasitoids of the poplar spiral gall aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae Passerini, 1860 in Ardabil province from 2012 to 2013. Two pteromalid species, including Pachyneuron solitarium (Hartig, 1838) and Asaphes suspensus (Nees, 1834) were reared from the mummified aphids. Both species are hyperparasitoid of P. spyrothecae via Monoctonia vesicarii Tremblay, 1991 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae). Pachyneuron solitarium is newly recorded from Iran.  
Keywords: Pemphigus, Monoctonia, Pachyneuron, Asaphes, new record
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Received: 2014/01/22 | Accepted: 2014/02/17 | Published: 2014/10/1
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