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Telenomus alecto Crawford

Description

Telenomus alecto (Crawford)

Distribution: Guatemala, Barbados, Puerto Rico, British Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina (Bin and Johnson 1982; Loiácono and Margaría 2002; Johnson 2004; Cueva Ventura and Condemarín Montealegre 2004).

Material examined: Argentina, Salta, Quebrada de Humahuaca: 8 females and 6 males, reared from eggs of Tolype guentheri (Berg.) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae).

Hosts records: Diatraea flavipennella (Box), D. rufescens Box and D. saccharalis (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Bin and Johnson 1982; Loiácono and Margaría 2002). Tolype guentheri is a new host record of a different Lepidoptera family.

Notes

Published as part of Margaría, Cecilia B., Loiácono, Marta S. & Lanteri, Analía A., 2009, New geographic and host records for scelionid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitoids of insect pests in South America, pp. 41-49 in Zootaxa 2314 on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191989

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Crawford
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Scelionidae
Genus
Telenomus
Species
alecto
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Bin, F. & Johnson, N. F. (1982) New species of Telenomus (Hym., Scelionidae), egg parasitoids of tropical pyralid pests (Lep., Pyralidae). Redia, 65, 229 - 252.
  • Loiacono, M. S. & Margaria, C. B. (2002) Ceraphronoidea, Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea from Brazil (Hymenoptera). Neotropical Entomology, 31 (4), 551 - 560.
  • Johnson, N. F. (2004) Platygastroidea. http: // atbi. biosci. ohio-state. edu: 210 / hymenoptera / eol _ scelionidae. home (accessed 1 November 2008).
  • Cueva Ventura, M. & Condemarin Montealegre, C. (2004) Fluctuacion poblacional de parasitoides y predatores de los estados inmaduros en Diatraea saccharalis Fab., en cultivo de cana de azucar, Fundo Santa Maria, Chepen, 2004. II Congreso Internacional de Cientificos Peruanos, 007.