黄宽颚步甲(Parena rufotescea Jedl)属鞘翅目,步甲科,是茶园内一种特有的天敌昆虫。笔者在开展天敌昆虫资源调查与利用工作中,重点对黄宽颚步甲进行了两年的饲养观察,现已初步掌握该步甲可捕食5科12种茶园害虫,尤其是对毒蛾科、尺蠖蛾科、刺蛾科等害虫有明显的控制能力,因此,是一种有利用价值的天敌昆虫,现将观察结果整理如下。 Parena rufotescea Jedl is a Coleoptera, Stepidae, is a unique tea plant natural enemy insects. In carrying out investigations and utilization of natural enemy insect resources, the author focused on the feeding of yellow-footed jaw carapace for two years. Now it has preliminary grasped that it can prey on 12 species of pests of tea plantation in 5 families, in particular, Moths, thorn moths and other pests have obvious control, therefore, is a value of natural enemies insects, the observations are summarized below.