Telenomus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) parasitizing Pentatomidae (Hemiptera) in the Palearctic region Author Tortorici, Francesco 0000-0002-0071-3292 Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), University of Torino, largo P. Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy Author Orrù, Bianca 0000-0002-8022-9707 Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), University of Torino, largo P. Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy Author Timokhov, Alexander V. 0000-0001-7040-6290 Department of Entomology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia Author Bout, Alexandre 0000-0001-5852-4817 INRAE, UMR 1355 Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, CNRS 7254, Université Côté d’Azur, 400 route des Chappes, BP 167, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France Author Bon, Marie-Claude 0000-0001-5914-1682 European Biological Control Laboratory, Montpellier, France Author Tavella, Luciana 0000-0003-4733-7279 Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), University of Torino, largo P. Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy Author Talamas, Elijah J. 0000-0002-1048-6345 Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, USA text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2024 2024-08-13 97 591 620 journal article 10.3897/jhr.97.127112 5F640AA2-13CD-4A58-AAD5-ED89D519F6BC Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck) Figs 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 8 A, C, E , 9 A, C, E Teleas truncatus Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 289 (original description); Graham 1988 b : 28 (type information); Graham 1988 a : 86 ( lectotype designation). Teleas Linnei Nees von Esenbeck, 1834: 288 (original description); Mayr 1879: 707 (synonym of Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck )) ; Graham 1988 b : 28 (type information); Johnson 1992: 617 (type information). Teleas Zetterstedtii Ratzeburg 1844: 185 (original description); Mayr 1879: 707 (synonym of Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck )) . Telenomus truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck): Mayr 1879: 700 , 702, 707 (description, generic transfer, synonymy, keyed); Kieffer 1926: 25 , 26, 31 (description, keyed); Javahery 1968: 431 (description, keyed); Szabó 1978: 219 , 222 (description, neotype designation, keyed); Johnson 1984 b : 41 (taxonomic status, neotype information); Johnson 1992: 617 (cataloged, type information); Mineo 2012: 61 (placed in turesis group). Telenomus Heydeni Mayr, 1879: 702 , 706 (original description, keyed). syn. nov. Telenomus Giraudi Kieffer, 1906: 163 (original description). Prophanurus Giraudi Kieffer: Kieffer 1912: 46 , 58 (description, generic transfer). Prophanurus Heydeni (Mayr): Kieffer 1912: 59 (description, generic transfer). Prophanurus Truncatus (Nees von Esenbeck): Kieffer 1912: 47 , 58 (description, generic transfer). Telenomus giraudi Kieffer: Kieffer 1926: 25 , 26, 31 (description, keyed); Szabó 1978: 221 (junior synonym of Telenomus heydeni Mayr ). Telenomus heydeni Mayr: Kieffer 1926: 26 , 36 (description, keyed); Kozlov 1967: 360 , 364, 372 (description, lectotype designation); Kozlov 1968: 216 (description, keyed); Voegelé 1969: 148 (keyed); Mineo 1977: 84 (description of preimaginal stages); Kozlov 1978: 638 , 644 (keyed); Szabó 1978: 219 , 221 (description, lectotype designation, keyed); Johnson 1992: 591 (cataloged, type information); Petrov 1994: 276 (keyed); Mineo 2012: 61 (placed in turesis group); Timokhov 2019: 55 (cataloged); Gokhman and Timokhov 2020: 216 (karyotype). Telenomus ( Telenomus ) heydeni Mayr: Kozlov and Kononova 1983: 140 , 164 (description, subgeneric assignment, keyed); Kononova 2014: 141 , 144 (description, keyed). Teleas linnei Nees von Esenbeck: Graham 1988 a : 88 ( lectotype designation). Diagnostic characters. Female. Head : compound eye with sparse and short setation throughout (Figs 1 A , 2 B , 3 B , 4 A , 8 C ); vertex shallowly and evenly granulate (Figs 1 C , 2 B , 3 B , 4 A , 8 C ); occipital carina complete (Fig. 8 A ); hyperoccipital carina present directly behind the lateral ocellus, carina sharp and well defined, sculpture smooth along posterior margin of carina (Fig. 8 C ); outer orbital furrow wide (2–2.5 times as wide as an ommatidium) (Fig. 8 C ); clypeal sensillum present above the line connecting the medial and lateral clypeal setae (Fig. 8 E ). Telenomus truncatus . Female lectotype (OXUM 0011): head in frontal view ( A ); habitus in lateral view ( B ); habitus in dorsal view ( C ). Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Telenomus truncatus . Female ( DISAFA - FT HYM- 0519): head in frontal view ( A ); head in dorso-lateral view ( B ); habitus in dorsal view ( C ); habitus in lateral view ( D ). Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Telenomus truncatus . Female ( DISAFA - FT HYM- 0650): fore and hind wings ( A ). Male ( DISAFA - FT HYM- 0516): head in frontal view ( B ); antenna ( C ); genitalia ( D ). Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Telenomus heydeni . Male lectotype ( NHMW - HYM # 0005387): head in frontal view ( A ); habitus in lateral view ( B ); habitus in dorso-lateral view ( C ). Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Mesosoma : mesoscutal humeral sulcus ( mshs ) present as a smooth furrow (Figs 1 B , 2 D , 9 A ); metapleural carina in antero-dorsal area of metapleuron ( pdms , between metapleural arm and propodeal spiracle) complete, distinct and strong (Fig. 9 A ); surface of the furrow between metanotal trough and metascutellar arm (msn) usually crenulate (Fig. 9 A ); mesoscutum longitudinally strigose posteriorly (Fig. 9 C ); median mesoscutal sulcus present in largest specimens, barely visible in smaller ones. Fore wing postmarginal ( pm ) and stigmal ( st ) veins length ratio: pm : st = 1.9: 1 (n = 20) (Fig. 3 A ). Hind femora dark brown with yellowish tips (Fig. 2 C, D ). Metasoma : first metasomal tergite with one or rarely two pairs of sublateral setae (ss) (Figs 1 C , 2 C , 9 E ). Male. Head : antennal length ratio A 3: A 2 = 1.2: 1 (n = 20), antennomeres A 6 – A 11 bead-like, subequal (Fig. 3 C ). Genitalia: basal ring ratio: Length: Width = 6: 5; minimum distance between inner margin of laminae volsellares: narrow (laminae volsellares lyre-shaped); external margin of penis valve more intensely sclerotized curved and distally converging (Fig. 3 D ). Hind femora yellow to pale brown. Other morphological characters as in female. From the analysis of the lectotype of Te. heydeni ( NHMW - HYM # 0005387), the combination of morphological characters (Fig. 4 ) coincides with the characters of the lectotype of Te. truncatus ( OXUM 0011), and the length ratio between the A 3 and A 2 antennomeres (Fig. 4 A ) matches with that of the male of Te. truncatus (Fig. 3 C ). Therefore, Te. heydeni is here considered a junior synonym of Te. truncatus . Biological information. Host species associated: Table 2 . The specimen DISAFA - FT HYM- 0657 - OQ 466097 was found overwintering in November in Viburnum leaf mines created by P. viburni ; the specimens AVT 001908 and AVT 001909 were found already dead in egg-mass of Lymantria monacha (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera , Erebidae ), presumably after wintering. DNA barcoding. Barcode sequences were obtained from 49 specimens of Te. truncatus . Pairwise distance values within species are shown in Suppl. material 3 . The genetic distances between the insects identified as the same species were between 0.000 and 0.074 (mean 0.013 + / - 0.003). The analysis of COI sequences discovered that Te. truncatus includes the specimen OL 631282 , previously identified as Telenomus sp. ( Ricupero et al., 2022 ) (Suppl. material 1 ). Distribution. Suppl. material 2 Material examined. Suppl. material 4 .