Annual Report of Introduced Beneficial Organisms Released in the United States and Territories - 1983

Section V - Species of Introduced Beneficial Organisms (Excluding Plants) Released in U.S. and Territories - 1983

Arranged Alphabetically by Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, with Type of Organism

PHYLUM: NEMATODA

Class: Secernentia

  Order: Rhabditida
   Family: Steinernematidae
     Steinernema carpocapsae (Weiser, 1955) PA
     Steinernema feltiae (Filipjev, 1934) PA

PHYLUM: ARTHROPODA

Class: Arachnida (Subclass Acari)

  Order: Acariformes
   Family: Eriophyidae
     Aceria chondrillae (Canestrini) WE

   Family: Podapolipidae
     Coccipolipus epilachnae Smiley PA

  Order: Parasitiformes
   Family: Phytoseiidae
     Amblyseius sp.  PR                               Euseius concordis (Chant) PR
     Euseius fructicolus Gonzalez & Schuster PR       Euseius hibisci (Chant) PR
     Euseius quetzali McMurtry PR                     Euseius scutalis (Athias-Henriot) PR
     Euseius sp. nr. citrifolius Denmark & Muma PR    Euseius sp. nr. concordis (Chant) PR
     Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot) PR           Euseius vivax (Chant & Baker) PR
     Galendromus annectens (DeLeon) PR                Galendromus occidentalis (Nesbitt) PR
     Galendromus porresi (McMurtry) PR                Iphiseius degenerans (Berlese) PR
     Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor) PR            Neoseiulus longispinosus (Evans) PR
     Phytoseiulus macropilis (Banks) PR               Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot PR
     Phytoseius hawaiiensis Prasad PR                 Typhlodromalus limonicus (Garman & McGregor) PR
     Typhlodromips sp. nr. tunis (Athias-Henriot) PR  Typhlodromips swirskii (Athias-Henriot) PR
     Typhlodromus cornus DeLeon PR                    Typhlodromus rickeri Chant PR
     Typhlodromus tiliae Oudemans PR

Class: Insecta

  Order: Coleoptera
   Family: Buprestidae
     Sphenoptera jugoslavica Obenberger WE


   Family: Cerambycidae
     Oberea erythrocephala (Schrank) WE

   Family: Chrysomelidae
     Agasicles hygrophila Selman & Vogt WE
     Chrysolina quadrigemina (Suffrian) WE
     Longitarsus jacobaeae (Waterhouse) WE

   Family: Coccinellidae
     Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus PR            Delphastus catalinae (Horn) PR
     Exochomus flavipes (Thunberg) PR                 Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) PR
     Hippodamia variegata (Goeze) PR                  Hyperaspis senegalensis hottentota Mulsant PR
     Lioadalia flavomaculata (DeGeer) PR              Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) PR
     Nephaspis bicolor Gordon PR                      Nephaspis oculata (Blatchley) PR
     Scymnus sp.  PR

   Family: Curculionidae
     Apion fuscirostre (Fabricius) WE                 Apion (Exapion) ulicis (Förster) WE
     Hadroplontus litura (Fabricius) WE               Microlarinus lareynii (Jacquelin du Val) WE
     Microlarinus lypriformis (Wollaston) WE          Microlarinus spp.  WE
     Neochetina bruchi Hustache WE                    Neochetina eichhorniae Warner WE
     Phrydiuchus tau Warner WE                        Rhinocyllus conicus (Froelich) WE
     Trichosirocalus horridus (Panzer) WE

   Family: Histeridae
     Atholus maindronii (Lewis) PR

   Family: Nitidulidae
     Cybocephalus ?nipponicus Endrody-Younga PR

   Family: Scarabaeidae
     Euoniticellus intermedius (Reiche) OT            Onitis alexis Klug OT
     Onthophagus bonasus (Fabricius) OT               Onthophagus taurus Schreber OT

  Order: Diptera
   Family: Cecidomyiidae
     Zeuxidiplosis giardi (Kieffer) WE

   Family: Tachinidae
     Ametadoria misella (Wulp) PA                     Compsilura concinnata (Meigen) PA
     Erynniopsis antennata (Rondani) PA               Istocheta aldrichi (Mesnil) PA
     Meigenia mutabilis (Fallén) PA                   Palexorista laxa (Curran) PA
     Trichopoda pilipes (Fabricius) PA

   Family: Tephritidae
     Urophora affinis (Frauenfeld) WE                 Urophora cardui (Linnaeus) WE
     Urophora quadrifasciata (Meigen) WE              Urophora stylata (Fabricius) WE

  Order: Heteroptera
   Family: Anthocoridae
     Anthocoris nemorum (Linnaeus) PR

   Family: Miridae
     Tytthus mundulus (Breddin) PR

   Family: Pentatomidae
     Oplomus ebulinus (Herrich-Schäffer) PR

  Order: Hymenoptera
   Family: Aphelinidae
     Coccophagus rusti Compere PA                     Encarsia ?haitiensis Dozier PA
     Encarsia citrina (Crawford) PA                   Encarsia fasciata (Malenotti) PA
     Encarsia formosa Gahan PA                        Encarsia lahorensis (Howard) PA
     Encarsia n. sp.  PA                              Encarsia n. sp. I  PA
     Encarsia smithi (Silvestri) PA                   Encarsia sp.  PA
     Eretmocerus n. sp.  PA                           Eretmocerus sp.  PA
     Prococcophagus saissetiae Annecke & Mynhardt PA  Pteroptrix n. sp.  PA

   Family: Aphidiidae
     Aphidius colemani Viereck PA                     Aphidius eadyi Starý PA
     Aphidius ervi Haliday PA                         Aphidius smithi Sharma & Subba Rao PA
     Ephedrus plagiator (Nees) PA                     Praon callaphis Mackauer & Sullivan PA
     Trioxys tenuicaudus Stary PA

   Family: Bethylidae
     Goniozus legneri Gordh PA

   Family: Braconidae
     Aleiodes lymantriae (Watanabe) PA                Allorhogas pyralophagus Marsh PA
     Biosteres sublaevis Wharton PA                   Cotesia melanoscelus (Ratzeburg) PA
     Cotesia plutellae (Kurdjumov) PA                 Cotesia rubecula (Marshall) PA
     Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday) PA                    Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) PA
     Diachasmimorpha tryoni (Cameron) PA              Glyptapanteles flavicoxis (Marsh) PA
     Glyptapanteles harrisinae (Muesebeck) PA         Glyptapanteles indiensis (Marsh) PA
     Habrobracon gelechiae (Ashmead) PA               Heterospilus annulatus Marsh PA
     Heterospilus megalopus Marsh PA                  Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesmael) PA
     Microctonus aethiopoides Loan PA                 Microctonus colesi Drea PA
     Microplitis demolitor (Wilkinson) PA             Microplitis rufiventris Kokujev PA
     Opius dissitus Muesebeck PA                      Peristenus adelphocoridis Loan PA
     Peristenus digoneutis Loan PA                    Peristenus stygicus Loan PA
     Pholetesor pedias (Nixon) PA                     Psyttalia concolor (Szépligeti) PA
     Psyttalia incisi (Silvestri) PA                  Rhaconotus roslinensis Lal PA
     Zelomorpha sp.  PA
             
   Family: Chalcididae
     Brachymeria intermedia (Nees) PA
     Brachymeria lasus (Walker) PA

   Family: Diapriidae
     Trichopria stomoxydis Huggert PA

   Family: Encyrtidae
     Aloencyrtus saissetiae (Compere) PA              Arrhenophagus albitibiae Girault PA
     Cerchysiella utilis (Noyes) PA                   Comperia merceti (Compere) PA
     Encyrtus saliens Prinsloo & Annecke PA           Metaphycus funicularis Annecke PA
     Metaphycus stramineus (Compere) PA               Prionomitus mitratus (Dalman) PA

   Family: Eucoilidae
     Ganaspidium utilis Beardsley PA

   Family: Eulophidae
     Chrysocharis caribea Boucek PA                   Chrysocharis oscinidis Ashmead PA
     Chrysonotomyia punctiventris (Crawford) PA       Diglyphus begini (Ashmead) PA
     Edovum puttleri Grissell PA                      Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) PA
     Oomyzus gallerucae (Fonscolombe) PA              Oomyzus incertus (Ratzeburg) PA
     Pediobius foveolatus (Crawford) PA               Pediobius furvum (Gahan) PA
     Tetrastichus coeruleus (Nees) PA                 Tetrastichus crioceridis Graham PA
     Tetrastichus julis (Walker) PA

   Family: Eupelmidae
     Anastatus disparis Ruschka PA

   Family: Ichneumonidae
     Bathyplectes anurus (Thomson) PA                 Bathyplectes curculionis (Thomson) PA
     Bathyplectes stenostigma (Thomson) PA            Campoplex frustranae Cushman PA
     Campoplex n. sp.  PA                             Diadegma laricinellum (Strobl) PA
     Diadromus collaris (Gravenhorst) PA              Diaparsis temporalis Horstmann PA
     Hyposoter ebeninus (Gravenhorst) PA              Hyposoter lymantriae Cushman PA
     Lemophagus crioceritor Aubert PA                 Lemophagus curtus Townes PA
     Microcharops anticarsiae Gupta PA                Pimpla disparis Viereck PA
     Scambus simulator Gupta & Tikar PA

   Family: Megachilidae
     Chalicodoma nigripes (Spinola) PO
     Osmia cornifrons (Radoszkowski) PO
     Osmia cornuta Latreille PO

   Family: Mymaridae
     Anagrus empoascae Dozier PA                      Anagrus flaveolus Waterhouse PA
     Anagrus giraulti Crawford PA                     Arescon enocki (Subba Rao & Kaur) PA
     Stethynium empoascae Subba Rao PA

   Family: Pteromalidae
     Catolaccus grandis (Burks) PA                    Dibrachoides dynastes (Förster) PA
     Halticoptera circulus (Walker) PA                Muscidifurax zaraptor Kogan & Legner PA

   Family: Scelionidae
     Telenomus chloropus Thomson PA
     Telenomus solitus Johnson PA
     Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston) PA

   Family: Sphecidae
     Larra bicolor Fabricius PA

   Family: Trichogrammatidae
     Trichogramma pretiosum Riley PA
     Trichogrammatoidea annulata DeSantis PA

   Family: Vespidae
     Ancistrocerus catskill (Saussure) PR             Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus (Saussure) PR
     Euodynerus hidalgo (Saussure) PR                 Euodynerus leucomelas (Saussure) PR

  Order: Lepidoptera
   Family: Coleophoridae
     Coleophora klimeschiella Toll WE

   Family: Gelechiidae
     Metzneria paucipunctella Zeller WE

   Family: Noctuidae
     Calophasia lunula (Hufnagel) WE

   Family: Pyralidae
     Sameodes albiguttalis (Warren) WE

   Family: Sphingidae
     Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus) WE

  Order: Neuroptera
   Family: Chrysopidae
     Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) PR

  Order: Thysanoptera
   Family: Phlaeothripidae
     Amynothrips andersoni O'Neill WE

   Family: Thripidae
     Scolothrips sexmaculatus (Pergande) PR

MICROBIAL ORGANISMS

Virus, Invertebrate
   Family: Unassigned
     NOV, Oryctes rhinoceros  MI

Fungi

Class: Basidiomycetes
  Order: Uredinales
   Family: Pucciniaceae
     Puccinia chondrillina Bubak & Syd. MI

Class: Hyphomycetes
  Order: Moniliales
   Family:
     Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson MI