Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Vol. 15: April, 2006
Fullaway (1917) described and illustrat ed both sexes of Spalangia philippinensis (hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from a cul ture that had been established in 1914 from house ?y, Musca domestica L. (diptera: Muscidae), puparia and other muscid puparia collected in the Philippines. The parasitoids were propagated and released in Hawaii as part of a control program for the horn fly, Haematobia irritans (l.) (dip tera: Muscidae). Fullaway briefly com pared his new species to S. Cameroni Perkins, 1910, but did not state the number of females and males he had before him, nor select a holotype or state where type material was deposited.
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