Published July 29, 2026
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Trichogramma exiguum
Authors/Creators
- 1. INRAE, UR ASTRO, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
- 2. UMR ISA, INRAE, Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia-Antipolis, France
- 3. CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- 4. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada
Description
Trichogramma exiguum (Pinto & Platner, 1978)
Notes.
This species was not collected in our survey.
Distribution.
The species is widely distributed throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical regions, ranging from Canada to Chile, and is present in the Caribbean subregion, including Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Grenada, the Grenadines, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago (UCD Community 2023).
Biology.
Similar to that described for T. atopovirilia.
Hosts.
Trichogramma exiguum is another polyphagous species of Trichogramma, and the species has been recorded from eggs of> 40 species of Lepidoptera belonging to ten families (UCD Community 2023), among them D. hyalinata (Polanczyk et al. 2011).
Notes
Published as part of Gumbau, Margot, Marteil, Claire, Groussier, Géraldine, Cruaud, Astrid, Nidelet, Sabine, Warot, Sylvie, Fernandez-Triana, José, Penet, Laurent, Blazy, Jean-Marc & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2026, A synopsis of neotropical parasitoid wasps of Diaphania hyalinata (Lepidoptera, Crambidae), with new records from Guadeloupe, pp. 293-336 in ZooKeys 1286 on pages 293-336, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1286.189299
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pinto & Platner
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Trichogrammatidae
- Genus
- Trichogramma
- Species
- exiguum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trichogramma exiguum (Pinto, 1978) sec. Gumbau, Marteil, Groussier, Cruaud, Nidelet, Warot, Fernandez-Triana, Penet, Blazy & Rasplus, 2026
References
- UCD Community (2023) Universal Chalcidoidea Database website. https://ucd.chalcid.org [June 18, 2025]
- Polanczyk RA, Barbosa WF, Celestino FN, Pratissoli D, Holtz AM, Milanez AM, Cocheto JG, da Silva AF (2011) Influence of Diaphania hyalinata (L.) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) egg density on the parasitization capacity of Trichogramma exiguum Pinto & Platner and Trichogramma pretiosum Riley (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Neotropical Entomology 40: 238–243.