Ceranisus menes ( Walker, 1839 )

Gumovsky, A. V., 2020, Biological notes on Ceranisus menes (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae), a biological control agent of thrips, in Ukraine, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka (Oxford, England) 11 (3), pp. 5-10 : 7

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4291995
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17033169
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ceranisus menes ( Walker, 1839 )
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Treatment

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For full list of synonymies see: Triapitsyn, 2005.

Material. 16 ♀ (all yellow color-type), Ukraine, Poltava Region, Hlobyne, abandoned air stripe of the former ‘air town’ near Hlobyne (Poltava Region, Hlobyne District : 49.41088ºN, 33.26132ºE), 07– 08.2020 ( Gumovsky ) ( SIZK) GoogleMaps .

Host. Various thrips on wide range of plants ( Loomans & van Lenteren, 1995; Triapitsyn, 2005; Noyes, 2019); associated with a thrips ( Fig. 3A) on Centaurea scabiosa ssp. apiculata in Central Ukraine (here).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, likely originates from tropical areas (where sexual strains are common). In Ukraine: Cherkasy Region, Khmelnytsky Region, Kyiv Region, Crimea ( Doğanlar et al., 2011), Poltava Region (first record).