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Telenomus connectans Ashmead

Description

Telenomus connectans Ashmead

Distribution: United States of America, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Vincent Island and Brazil (Johnson 1984, 2004). New state record for Brazil, Federal District.

Material examined: Brazil, Federal District, Itabuna: 2 males, reared from eggs of Erynnis ello (Linné) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae).

Hosts records: Erynnis ello, Manduca sexta Butler, Perigonia stulta Herrich-Schaffer et Schaffer, Sphinx merops Boisduval, Xylophanes tersa (Linneo) and X. neoptolemus (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and Hesperidae (Lepidoptera) (Gahan 1930; Johnson 1990, 2004).

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 page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191989

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Additional details

Biodiversity

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

References

  • Johnson, N. F. (1984) Systematics of Nearctic Telenomus: classification and revisions of the podisi and phymatae groups (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey, 6 (3), 1 - 113.
  • Johnson, N. F. (2004) Platygastroidea. http: // atbi. biosci. ohio-state. edu: 210 / hymenoptera / eol _ scelionidae. home (accessed 1 November 2008).
  • Gahan, A. B. (1930) Synonymical and descriptive notes on parasitic Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 77 (2831), 1 - 12.
  • Johnson, N. F. (1990) Telenomus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) egg parasites of Erinnyis ello (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 92, 329 - 332.