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Trichogramma demoraesi Nagaraja 1983

  • 1. Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, 13418 - 900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: jacimvieira @ yahoo. com. br; razucchi @ usp. br
  • 2. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Meio-Norte, 64006 - 220 Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.

Description

Trichogramma demoraesi Nagaraja, 1983

Diagnosis. Genital capsule elongate and narrow; dorsal lamina narrow at base, fork-shaped; intervolsellar process narrow and distinct, apex slightly pointed; ventral processes positioned anterior to base of intervolsellar process (Fig. 1A–C). Antennae with flagelliform setae moderately long, gradually tapering at apex (Fig. 1D).

Type material. Trichogramma demoraesi. Paratype ♂, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Felixlândia, 11.v.1978 (Brun, Moraes, and Soares) (NHM) (examined). The holotype and “ allotype ” were deposited at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (ICB/ UFMG), Brazil. Not found.

Distribution. Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Associated plant. Eucalyptus grandis Hill (ex Maiden) (Myrtaceae).

Habitat. Forest.

Host insect. Glena bipennaria (Guenée, [1858]).

Comments. Specimens reared from eggs of E. ello, previously identified as T. demoraesi, differ from the paratype as follows: i) flagelliform setae of specimens are shorter than in the paratype (ratio of the length and width of setae is 1.52 and 2.05 respectively); ii) basiconic sensilla formula 1-2-2-0(1)-1-1 (specimens) and 1-1-2-0-1-1 (paratype), therefore, in the paratype there is only one sensillum in position 2 and none in position 4; iii) intervolsellar process broader in the specimens than in the paratype; iv) posterior extension of the dorsal lamina broader in the specimens than paratype, whose dorsal lamina is fork-shaped.

Notes

Published as part of Vieira, Jaci M., Querino, Ranyse B. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2014, On the identity of Trichogramma demoraesi Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), with a checklist and a key to Trichogramma species associated with Erinnyis ello (L.) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in Brazil, pp. 83-89 in Zootaxa 3869 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4947175

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References

  • Nagaraja, H. (1983) Descriptions of new Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 43 (1), 37 - 44.