. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. PARASITES OF GIPSY-MOTH CATERPILLARS. 193 Apanteles fulvipes Hal. The one among the hymenopterous parasites attacking the cater- pillars of the gipsy moth which has ever been received under circum- stances indicative of its unquestioned importance as an enemy of that host is at present known as Apanteles fulvipes (fig. 31). The name Glyptapanteles, as generically applied to it, has been regret- fully dropped, the more so since this name has already become familiar to many whose interest in parasites begins and en
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. PARASITES OF GIPSY-MOTH CATERPILLARS. 193 Apanteles fulvipes Hal. The one among the hymenopterous parasites attacking the cater- pillars of the gipsy moth which has ever been received under circum- stances indicative of its unquestioned importance as an enemy of that host is at present known as Apanteles fulvipes (fig. 31). The name Glyptapanteles, as generically applied to it, has been regret- fully dropped, the more so since this name has already become familiar to many whose interest in parasites begins and ends with those which are included among the enemies of the gipsy and brown-tail moths. It was accepted, in the first place, on account of the immediate dis- tinction which it offered to Apanteles, as applied to A. solitarius and A. lacteicolor Vier., and because it seemed preferable to make the technical name the common name as well. Now, with an enforced change in the spe- cific name vaguely in prospect, it would seem advisable to adopt an arbitrary c ommon name rather than to at- tempt to popularize the technical name, and should it again become desirable to write of it in a pop- ular way, this will probably be done. That a change in its specific designation will become necessary when it shall have been thoroughly well studied abroad seems probable, although there is no basis upon which to make such a change at the present time. If, as European taxonomists have agreed, it is synony- mous with A. nemorum, described by Ratzeburg as a parasite of Lasiocampa pini L. and is at the same time specifically identical with the form so determined by Marshall as a common species in England, there seems to be no reason why it should not be introduced success- fully into Massachusetts. A parasite with anything like the wide range of hosts accredited to this species abroad should find no diffi- culty in existing in America, and if the species which attacks the 05677°—Bull. 01—11 13. Fig
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