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Uscana caryedoni Viggiani 1987

Description

Uscana caryedoni Viggiani, 1987

Hosts. Callosobruchus rhodesianus (Pic) (Viggiani 1987); Caryedon congensis Decelle (Viggiani 1987) on Bauhinia thonningii Schum. (Delobel 1989); Caryedon serratus (Olivier) on Bauhinia thonningii Schum. (Delobel 1989).

Distribution. AFROTROPICAL: Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo, Senegal. NEOTROPICAL: Peru.

Notes

Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806

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References

  • Viggiani, G. (1987) Description of a new species of Uscana Girault from Congo, with notes on other species (Hymenoptera, Trichogrammatidae). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria ' Filippo Silvestri', Portici, 43, 7 - 9.
  • Delobel, A. (1989) Effectiveness of Uscana caryedoni (Hymenoptera, Trichogrammatidae) as a biological control agent of the groundnut bruchid Caryedon serratus (Coleoptera, Bruchidae). Entomophaga, 34 (3), 315 - 363. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02372474