Annotated checklist and illustrated key to the species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from South America
Author
Querino, Ranyse B.
Author
Zucchi, Roberto A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-14
4656
2
201
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journal article
26026
10.11646/zootaxa.4656.2.1
1108d0b7-f5aa-4c73-9598-7f80ae398886
1175-5326
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Trichogramma zucchii
Querino, 2003
Diagnosis
. Several setae with indistinct bases in first sections of flagellum; anterior setae of scutellum relatively long and dark; dorsal lamina long and linguiform, extending to volsellae; intervolsellar process relatively short.
Comments
.
Trichogramma zucchii
can be readily distinguished from other Neotropical species by the dorsal lamina with a tongue-shaped posterior extension, extending beyond the volsellae; and by several unsocketed setae on the first sections of the flagellum.
Type repository
: ESALQ (holotype) and University of California, Riverside.
Type locality
: Piracicaba, SP.
Distribution in South America
. Brazil.
Host
.
Melanolophia
sp. (
Lepidoptera
:
Geometridae
), in a forest reserve (
Querino
et al
. 2017
).