This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Andreason, Sharon A., Dominguez, Chrysalyn, Perring, Thomas M. (2019): On the origin of Anagyrus callidus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of pink hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). Zootaxa 4671 (2): 283-289, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.9

Abstract

Anagyrus callidus Triapitsyn, Andreason & Perring (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), recently described from southern California, USA and Mexico, is a primary parasitoid of the pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). This wasp species previously was misidentified as Anagyrus kamali Moursi, which was introduced and released as such in the United States (California and Florida) and Mexico. In this paper, the origin of A. callidus is shown to be from Taiwan, based on differences in the morphology and molecular sequences of voucher specimens of an earlier colony of the misidentified A. kamali from Puerto Rico (released in August 2002 in southern Florida), and specimens that originated in southern Taiwan.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ac9a4b1b-b3d2-4bb0-9ed3-0232012e96c2
Homepage: https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FF8CFFA8670B6E07724BFFD4FFC64D1E
Citation: Triapitsyn S V, Andreason S A, Dominguez C, Perring T M, plazi (2019). On the origin of Anagyrus callidus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of pink hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.9 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-02-12.