Gonatocerus ashmeadi

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| image = Gonatocerus ashmeadi Girault, 1915 2874032029.jpg

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| genus = Gonatocerus

| species = ashmeadi

| authority = Girault, 1915

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Gonatocerus ashmeadi is a species of fairyfly. Its natural range is Florida, Louisiana, northeastern Mexico, Mississippi, North Carolina, eastern Texas, and southern and central California.{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/j.biocontrol.2006.02.006 | volume=37 | issue=3 | title=Reproductive and developmental biology of Gonatocerus ashmeadi (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), an egg parasitoid of Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) | journal=Biological Control | pages=266–275| year=2006 | last1=Pilkington | first1=Leigh J. | last2=Hoddle | first2=Mark S. | bibcode=2006BiolC..37..266P }}http://files.piercesdisease.org/proceedings/2002/2002_103-103.pdf{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

It is used to control the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

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