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List of works by Valmir A. Costa

A new interaction in an invasive plant in Brazil: Horismenus abnormicaulis (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) parasitizing Acanthoscelides macrophthalmus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in seeds pods of Leucaena leucocephala (Fabaceae)

scientific article published in 2022

A survey for potential biological control agents of <i>Pereskia</i> <i>aculeata</i> Miller (Cactaceae) in Brazil reveals two new species of <i>Horismenus</i> Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae).

scientific article

Annotated checklist and illustrated key to braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of economically important fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil

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Annotated checklist and illustrated key to parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae, Eulophidae and Pteromalidae) of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Egg parasitoids of the cassava hornworm (Erinnyis spp.) associated to cassava in the Pará State, Brazil

scientific article published in 2020

First record and new species of the parasitoid wasp Chaenotetrastichus Graham (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) for the Neotropical Region, with notes on its biology and a key for the species of the genus

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

First record of parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) associated with Anastrepha barbiellinii Lima, 1938 (Diptera: Tephritidae)

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

First records of parasitoids attacking the Asian citrus psyllid in Ecuador

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Horismenus camobiensis (Hym.: Eulophidae), a new hyperparasitoid of Cotesia invirae (Hym.: Braconidae) in Opsiphanes invirae (Lep.: Nymphalidae) pupae

scholarly article published in 2024

Life history of Spalangia gemina Boucek (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a fast-breeding microhymenopteran pupal parasitoid of muscoid flies

scientific article published on July 1, 1991

Natural egg parasitism of Tibraca limbativentris Stal (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in rice crop in the State of Maranhão, Brazil

scientific article published in July 2007

New records of Rileya hegeli Girault, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) from Brazil

scientific article published on 26 October 2022

New species, notes and new records of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) in Brazil

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2017)

Occurrence of Aprostocetus sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a predator on the eggs of Araneus omnicolor (Araneae: Araneidae), in Jundiai, Brazil

Occurrence of Cephalonomia stephanoderis Betrem (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in coffee plantations of the Brazilian Amazonia

scientific article published in July 2006

Occurrence of Ctenarytaina eucalypti (Maskell) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) and its natural enemy Psyllaephagus pilosus Noyes (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) in Eucalyptus globulus in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

scientific article published in July 2010

POPULATION DYNAMICS OF STENOMA CATENIFER (LEPIDOPTERA: ELACHISTIDAE) AND RELATED LARVAL PARASITOIDS IN MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

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Paracrias pluteus (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) in Brazil: new distribution and host records, and with a new host group for Paracrias

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Parasitism in Trialeurodes variabilis (Quaintance) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Encarsia hispida De Santis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), in papaya, in Brazil

scientific article published in January 2007

Phylogeny of the ophrynopine clade revisited: review of the parasitoid sawfly genera Ophrella Middlekauff, Ophrynopus Konow and Stirocorsia Konow (Hymenoptera : Orussidae)

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Spalangia leiopleura Gibson, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): first record from Brazil

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Taxonomy and Biological Control: New Challenges in an Old Relationship

scientific article published in 2023

Three new species of Horismenus Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) associated with seed pods of Pithecellobium dulce (Fabaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 4 August 2015)

Two new species of Emersonella (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Entedoninae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

article by Thiago M. Alvarenga et al published April 2015 in Zoologia