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Cereal leaf beetle fairyfly

Anaphes flavipes

Cereal leaf beetle fairyfly (Anaphes flavipes) is a beneficial insect. It was first detected in Idaho in 1993.

Anaphes flavipes is a parasitoid wasp that was introduced to the United States from Europe in 1965 for the control of the cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopsis .

For more information about this plant pest, see the CABI data sheet.