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Grissell, Edward |
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Schauff, Michael |
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Submitted to: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 9/2/1996 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Parasitic wasps belonging to a group called chalcids are used in biological control and are responsible for more cases of successful and complete control of introduced pests than all other groups of insects put together. These successes have saved millions of dollars in control efforts annually for over 50 or more years, so the impact of these wasps is incalculable. The present handbook is a revised edition of the original published in 1991, which is now out of print. It summarizes what is known about the biology and distribution of these wasps, it gives sources on where to obtain more information about them, and it adds the most currently available information on the group for the period 1990 to 1996. The handbook is used to teach students, biological control researchers, university staff, and USDA workers how to identify these wasps to family and subfamily using simple pictorial methods appropriate to lay persons. Technical Abstract: In this second edition of the handbook of Chalcidoidea, all text, keys, nomenclature, and literature is updated from the 1991 version. Corrections to the first edition are included as well. This revision of the first edition brings the handbook treating these parasitic wasps to date (1996) in a technically accurate manner and synthesizes, in an easily used single manual, the knowledge currently available through many other technical, diffuse, and often difficult to locate sources of literature. |
