Storage Potential of the Predatory Ladybird in Relation to Temperature, Humidity, and Factitious Food.

The ability of the females of the predatory ladybird to survive and to retain reproductive potential in the absence of natural food (aphids) was estimated under various hydrothermal (temperatures of 7, 12, 17, 22, and 27 °C; air humidities of 50% and 80-90%) and trophic (starved vs. fed on the frozen eggs of the grain moth ) conditions. The post-storage reproductive potential was estimated using the mean number of eggs laid over 20 days.

New species of the genera Fabricius and Enderlein (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) from South Korea.

Six new species, Bracon (Bracon) kimchanghyoi, B. (B.) yeogisanensis, B.

Grandmaternal temperature effect on diapause induction in Trichogramma telengai (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae).

Adaptive grandmaternal thermal effect, wherein the grandmaternal thermal environment affects the induction of progeny diapause two generations later, has not been studied in any insect system. We have studied this effect in the parthenogenetic egg parasitoid Trichogramma telengai Sor. (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) under laboratory conditions.

New species of Euphorinae parasitoids of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from South Korea.

Four new species of braconid parasitoids of the subfamily Euphorinae (Braconidae) from South Korea are described and illustrated, Centistes (Centistes) ahni sp. nov., Leiophron (Leiophron) pubiscutum sp.

Study of the genus Bracon Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran: new subspecies, new records and an updated checklist.

The present study is based on the genus Bracon Fabricius collected from the Khuzestan province in the southwestern part of Iran during 2016-2017. In total, 35 species including one subspecies were collected and identified, of which 10 species are recorded for the first time from Iran and Bracon (Osculobracon) pelliger rumezensis Samartsev Zargar ssp. n.

New species of the subfamily Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Russian Far East.

Four new species from the Russian Far East, Bracon kasparyani sp. nov., B.

Braconinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) emerged from larvae of Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) feeding on Daphne gnidium L.

Bracon admotus Papp, 2000, and three species of the genus Habrobracon Ashmead, 1895, Habrobracon concolorans (Marshall, 1900), Habrobracon hebetor (Say, 1836) and Habrobracon pillerianae Fischer, 1980, were obtained from the larvae of Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) feeding on Daphne gnidium Linnaeus, 1753 (Thymelaeaceae) in the natural reserve of Migliarino-San Rossore-Massaciuccoli (Pisa-Central Italy). Bracon admotus, Habrobracon concolorans and Habrobracon pillerianae were found for the first time to be associated with Lobesia botrana, while Habrobracon hebetor was reared for the first time from the larvae of Cryptoblabes gnidiella (Millière, 1867) (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) that was found on the same host plant. Bracon admotus and Habrobracon pillerianae are new to the fauna of Italy and Western Europe.

Multigenerational maternal inhibition of prepupal diapause in two Trichogramma species (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae).

It is known that in some insect species the incidence of diapause among the progeny of females that had undergone diapause is relatively low or zero even under strong diapause-inducing conditions. Moreover, the maternal inhibition, preventing the induction of a maladaptive diapause in spring, can persist over several generations. This multigenerational effect based on hypothetical 'interval timer' was thoroughly studied in Aphididae.

Palaearctic species of the Spathius exarator species group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) with entirely sculptured mesopleuron.

The Palaearctic species of the S. exarator species group of the genus Spathius Nees with entirely sculptured mesopleuron are discussed. Four new species, Spathius austriacus sp.