Stink bug egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) associated with pistachio in Iran and description of a new species: Trissolcus darreh Talamas
Author
Ranjbar, Fateme
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-4354
Department of Crop Protection, College of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan 7713936417, Iran
Author
Jalali, M. Amin
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4034-541X
Department of Crop Protection, College of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan 7713936417, Iran
Author
Ziaaddini, Mahdi
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-4154
Department of Crop Protection, College of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan 7713936417, Iran
Author
Gholamalizade, Zahra
Department of Crop Protection, College of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan 7713936417, Iran
Author
Talamas, Elijah J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345
Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA
elijah.talamas@fdacs.gov
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2021
2021-12-23
87
291
308
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72838
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72838
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Trissolcus perepelovi (Kozlov)
Identification.
Trissolcus perepelovi
was identified using the key of
Talamas et al. (2017)
. Key characters used to identify this species are the absence of a hyperoccipital carina, metapleuron without setation, absence of episternal foveae, female antenna with five clavomeres, and a bulging anteroventral portion of the mesopleuron.
Material examined.
Rafsanjan
,
Kerman Prov.
,
Iran
, 2019, reared from eggs of
Acrosternum arabicum
and
Brachynema signatum
,
85 females
,
41 males
: FSCA 00093760-00093762, 00093764, 00093773-00093774, 00093776-00093777, 00093779, 00093781-00093782, 00093785, 00093787, 00093791, 00093794-00093797, 00093799-00093804, 00093807-00093812, 00093814-00093815, 00093817, 00093819-00093820, 00093822-00093823, 00093825-00093831, 00093834-00093841, 00093843-00093844, 00093846-00093848, 00093850-00093853, 00093855-00093857, 00093859-00093860, 00094200-00094201, 00094203, 00094206, 00094208, 00094210, 00094212-00094214, 00094216-00094218, 00094220-00094226, 00094229, 00094233-00094234, 00094245, 00094250-00094253, 00094256-00094259, 00094262-00094264, 00094268, 00094270-00094272, 00094274, 00094276, 00094278-00094279, 00094282-00094283, 00094286-00094288, 00094291, 00094294-00094295, 00094299-00094300, 00094411, 00094875, 00095709-00095710
.
Intraspecific variation.
Among the specimens analyzed here, we found that there is more variation in the microsculpture of the frons (Figures
15-16
) than was documented by
Talamas et al. (2017)
. Specimens reared from
B. signatum
tend to have more microsculpture than those from
A. arabicum
, but this is not a perfect correlation. Specimens reared from
B. signatum
tend to have a metasoma that is lighter in color than those reared from
A. arabicum
, a phenomenon that
Ganjisaffar et al. (2020)
reported to be host related in some Nearctic
Trissolcus
species. We generated two COI barcode sequences for
T. perepelovi
, one from a specimen reared from
A. arabicum
, and the other from
B. signatum
, which have a 99.53% sequence identity. These specimens have slight variation in the degree of microsculpture on the frons and both have a dark metasoma. This suggests that the variation described above is not entirely attributable to the host species.
Comment.
In this study,
T. perepelovi
was reared from the eggs of
Acrosternum arabicum
and
Brachynema germari
. It was previously reported by
Mohammadpour et al. (2016)
, as
T. deserticola
, to parasitize the eggs of
B. germani
in Kerman province.
Figure 20.
Trissolcus semistriatus
, female (FSCA 00094876), habitus, lateral view.