Ichneumonid parasitoids of the sawfy Cimbex quadrimaculata (Müller) feeding on almonds in Antalya, along with a new parasitoid and new record

The sawfy Cimbex quadrimaculata (Müller) (Hymenoptera: Cimbicidae) has been identifed as a serious defoliator of youngalmond plants in Antalya. Two ichneumonid parasitoids, Opheltes glaucopterus (Linnaeus) and Phobetes nigriceps (Gravenhorst)(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ctenopelmatinae), were reared as larva pupa parasitoids of C. quadrimaculata . Of these, P. nigricepswas obtained for the frst time from C. quadrimaculata ; it is a new record for the Turkish fauna as well as for the continent of Asia.

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