An Attempt to introduce Scoliid Wasps from Madagascar to Mauritius

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-2670|13|3|245-254

ISSN: 0007-4853

Source: Bulletin of Entomological Research, Vol.13, Iss.3, 1922-11, pp. : 245-254

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Abstract

Attention was first directed to the Scoliid wasps of Madagascar in 1916, in which year it became clear that further attempts at importing Tiphia parallela from Barbados to Mauritius for the control of Phytalus smithi would have to be abandoned on account of difficulties of transport arising out of the war. The establishment of Tiphia in Mauritius shortly afterwards caused this question to lose its urgency, but in the meantime the attention of the writer had been attracted by a footnote in a paper by de Saussure* regarding Oryctes simiar and its natural enemy Scolia oryctophaga, the habits of which had been studied by Dr. Ch. Coquerel during his stay in Madagascar in the year 1850.