Telenomus podisi Ashmead

Telenomus podisi Ashmead

Distribution: Canadá, United States of America, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Caiman Islands, Grenada, French Guyana, Saint Vincent Islands, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina (De Santis and Vidal Sarmiento 1979; Johnson 1984; 2004; Loiácono and Margaría 2002). New country record for Uruguay; and new province records for Argentina, Buenos Aires and Tucumán.

Material examined: Colombia, Quindío, Calarca, Vereda Española: 4 females, IX-2005, Sánchez coll., reared from eggs of Podisus sp. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Macadamia (Proteaceae); 1 female and 1 male, VIII-2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Loxa sp. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Macadamia.

Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Dourados, Ponta Pörá: 3 females and 1 male, 23-IX-2005, 4 females and 1 male, 7-IV-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; Dourados, Itapará: 2 females and 2 males, 9-V-2005, 2 females and 4 males, 30-III-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; Dourados, Barreñao: 5 females and 2 males, 1-II-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; reared from eggs of Dichelops melacanthus (Dallas) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Zea maiz. Argentina, Tucumán, Leales, 6 females, 25-II-07, Berta coll., collected with mesh; Buenos Aires, Irala: 12 females and 2 males, 10-II-2001, Corral coll., reared from eggs of Nezara viridula (L.) on Glycine max (Fabaceae); 25 de Mayo, Gobernador Ugarte: 8 females and 1 male, 16-II-2001, Corral coll., reared from eggs of Nezara viridula on Glycine max. Uruguay, Artigas: 5 females and 5 males, 4-II-1947, Ruffinnelli coll., reared from eggs of pentatomid, Soriano, Dolores: 6 females and 15 males, II and III-2004, Ávila coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on Glycine max; Paysandú: 22 females and 11 males, I, II and III-2004, Castiglioni coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii on Glycine max; Colonia, La Estanzuela: 32 females and 35 males, I, II and III-2005, Alzugaray coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii on pastures.

Host records: Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae (Diolcus chrysorrhoeus (Fabricius) and Coreidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and Auchenorrhyncha (Cicadellidae). Within Pentatomidae the species have been reported for eggs of Acrosternum hilare (Say), Banasa dimidiata (Say), Brochymena sp., Chlorochroa sayi (Stâl), Cosmopepla bimaculata (Thomas), C. carnifex Fabricius, Diolcus chrysorrhoeus (Fabricius), Euchistus impictiventris Stal, E. heros (Fabricius), E. servus (Say), E. tristigmus Dallas, E. variolarius Palisot et Beauvois, Euthyrhynchus floridanus (Linneo), Holcostethus limborarius (Stal), Nezara viridula, Oebalus insularis Stal, O. poecilus (Dallas), O. pugnax (Fabricius), O. ypsilongriseus (De Geer), Peribalus limbolarius Stal, Piezodorus guildinii Westwood, Podisus maculiventris (Say), P. nigrispinus Dallas, P. placidus Uhler, P. serieventris Uhler, Podisus sp., Solubea poecila (Dallas), Solubea pugnax (Fabricius), Trichopepla semivittata (Say) and Thyanta custator (De Santis and Vidal Sarmiento 1979; Johnson 1984, 2004; Medeiros et al. 1997; Guharay 1999; Loiácono and Margaría 2002; Rider 2006). Loxa sp. is a new pentatomid host.

Two cases of scelionid species emerging from a single egg mass (T. podisi + Trissolcus teretis and T. podisi + Trissolcus brochymenae) are herein reported for Piezodorus guildinii in Uruguay.