Gilder, K., Gu, M., Merchant, M., & Heinz, K.M. 2021a Inventory and Food Web of Arthropod Fauna Associated with Lagerstroemia spp. in Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 46(2): 413-438

Keywords:

  • natural enemies
  • Notes: This was the first study to systematically survey for Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae parasitoids in the U.S., and no parasitoids of A. lagerstroemiae were recovered. This indicates a classical biological control program featuring non-native parasitoid introductions is worth investigating.