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Trissolcus basalis Wollaston

Description

Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston)

Distribution: United States of America, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Saint Vincent Island, Grenada, Trinidad, Madeira, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Morroco, Egypt, Senegal, Ivory Cost, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Japon, China, Hawaii, Montserrat Island, New Caledonian, Fidji, French Polynesia, Tonga, Cook Island, Vanuatu and Australia (La Porta and Crouzel 1984, Johnson 1985, 2004, Molinari et al. 2008). New country records for Colombia and Uruguay, new state record for Brazil, San Pablo, and new province record for Argentina, Córdoba.

Material studied: Colombia, Valle del Cauca: 2 females and 1 male, IX-2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Pentatomidae on Macadamia (Proteaceae); Quindío, Calarca, Vereda Española: 1 male, IX- 2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Podisus sp. on Macadamia. Brasil, San Pablo, Campinas: 60 females and 10 males, XII-1984, da Silva coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii; 1 female and 1 male, 22-III-1991, Regina coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii.

Hosts records: Nezara viridula, Acrosternum aseadum Rolston, Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (Dallas), Dichelops furcatus (Fabricius), Euschistus heros (Fabricius), Murgantia histrionica (Hahn), Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood), Podisus maculiventris Say, Podisus sp., (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) and Scutelleridae sp. (Johnson 1985, 2004; Medeiros et al. 1997, 1998; Molinari et al. 2008).

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 45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191989

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Scelionidae
Genus
Trissolcus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wollaston
Species
basalis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • La Porta, N. C. & de Crouzel, I. S. (1984) Estudios basicos para el control biologico de Nezara viridula (L., 1758) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) en la Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 43 (1 - 4), 119 - 143.
  • Johnson, N. F. (1985). Systematics of New world Trissolcus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) species related to T. basalis. The Canadian Entomologist, 117, 431 - 445.
  • Johnson, N. F. (2004) Platygastroidea. http: // atbi. biosci. ohio-state. edu: 210 / hymenoptera / eol _ scelionidae. home (accessed 1 November 2008).
  • Molinari, A. M., La Porta, N. C. & Massoni, F. (2008) Parasitoides (Hymenoptera y Diptera) de hemipteros fitofagos. In: Trumper, E. V. & Edelstein, J. D. (Eds.), Chinches fitofagas en soja. Revision y avances en el estudio de su ecologia y manejo, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, INTA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 107 - 128.
  • Medeiros, M. A., Schimidt, F. V., Loiacono, M., Carvalho, V. & Borges, M. (1997) Parasitismo e Predacao em Ovos de Euchistos heros (Fab.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) no Distrito Federal. Anais da Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil, 26 (2), 397 - 401.
  • Medeiros, M. A., Loiacono, M. S., Borges, M. & Schimidt, F. V. (1998) Incidencia natural de parasitoides em ovos de percevejos da soja (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) no Distrito Federal. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira, 33 (8), 1431 - 1435.