Gonatocerus ashmeadi

Gonatocerus ashmeadi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Mymaridae
Genus: Gonatocerus
Species: G. ashmeadi
Binomial name
Gonatocerus ashmeadi
Girault, 1915

Gonatocerus ashmeadi is a species of fairyfly. Its natural range is Florida, Louisiana, northeastern Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina, eastern Texas, and southern and central California.[1][2]

It is used to control the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

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