Key to Nearctic species of Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), natural enemies of native and invasive stink bugs (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) Author Talamas, Elijah J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345 billy.jenkins@GMAIL.COM Author Johnson, Norman F. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-5187 Author Buffington, Matthew https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-3861 text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2015 2015-03-27 43 45 110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.43.8560 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.43.8560 1314-2607-43-45 400C0A045BB046539A87535B5CA22D0C FFAE6E40E208FFC11E681F11E157FFDA 575063 Trissolcus edessae Fouts Figures 56-59 Trissolcus edessae Fouts, 1920: 65 (original description); Masner and Muesebeck 1968 : 72 (type information); Johnson 1984 : 799, 801 (description, keyed); Johnson 1987 : 289, 300 (diagnosis, keyed). Diagnosis. Trissolcus edessae may be distinguished from the native species of Nearctic Trissolcus in the Trissolcus flavipes group ( T. brochymenae , T. euschisti , and T. strabus ) by the abruptly bicolored female antennae. It may be separated from T. japonicus by the presence of 2 clypeal setae and the episternal foveae that do not form a continuous line from the postacetabular sulcus to the mesopleural pit. It may be separated from T. cultratus by the absence of parallel arched rugae on the frons. In T. edessae a median mesoscutal carina is often present, and this is absent in T. cultratus and T. japonicus . Johnson (1984) used the absence of a mesopleural carina in T. edessae as a diagnostic character. Our examination included a specimen in which the mesopleural carina is present (Fig. 58 ) and thus we prefer not to use this character for identification. A result of this is that unambiguous identification of male specimens may require movement or removal of the wings to properly evaluate the surface sculpture within the axillar crescent. Link to distribution map. [http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=3221] Associations. Emerged from egg of Acrosternum hilare (Say): [ Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Pentatomoidea : Pentatomidae ]; emerged from egg of Edessa bifida (Say): [ Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Pentatomoidea : Pentatomidae ]; parasite of Edessa bifida (Say): [ Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Pentatomoidea : Pentatomidae ]; emerged from egg of Euschistus Dallas: [ Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Pentatomoidea : Pentatomidae ]; emerged from Pachycoris torridus (Scopoli): [ Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Pentatomoidea : Scutelleridae ] Material examined. Holotype, female: UNITED STATES: LA, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 23.VII.1919, C. E. Smith, USNMENT00872412 (deposited in USNM). Other material : (2 females, 1 male, 29 sex unrecorded) EL SALVADOR: 3 sex unrecorded, USNMENT00764980, USNMENT00764981, USNMENT00764993 (USNM). NICARAGUA: 2 sex unrecorded, OSUC 398762-398763 (CNCI). UNITED STATES: 2 females, 1 male, 24 sex unrecorded, OSUC 17814 (BMNH); OSUC 398760-398761 (CNCI); OSUC 523872 (MEMU); OSUC 145559, 542444, 75617-75636 (OSUC); OSUC 145649 (USNM).