Natural enemies of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae), with description of a new species of Leucopina Malloch (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae)
Author
Montes-Rodríguez, José Mauricio
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria-AGROSAVIA, Centro de Investigación La Suiza, Km 32 vía al mar, vereda Galápagos, Rionegro, Santander, Colombia.
Author
Kondo, Takumasa
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria-AGROSAVIA, Centro de Investigación Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Author
Gaimari, Stephen D.
Dipterists Society, P. O. Box 231113, Sacramento, California, 95823, USA.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-03-15
5424
4
423
436
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5424.4.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5424.4.2
1175-5326
10821487
4A75F0B1-1255-414D-AA62-20CAABDDF3AC
Prochiloneurus dactylopii
(Howard)
(
Figs 1E–F
)
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Santander
:
2 ♀
,
Bucaramanga
,
Barrio La Aurora
,
07°07′35″N
,
73°07′00″W
,
1010 m
a.s.l.
,
10.i.2020
, coll.
J. Montes
,
ex
Malvaviscus arboreus
[
CTNI
]
;
1 ♀
,
Bucaramanga
,
Barrio San Francisco
,
07°07′56″N
,
73°07′21″W
,
993 m
a.s.l.
,
10.i.2020
, coll.
J. Montes
[
CTNI
]
.
Notes.
The antennal coloration and the ratio of clava to funicle length differ slightly from the description of the
type
material of
P. dactylopii
provided by
Noyes & Triapitsyn (2017)
, these same authors studied a specimen with these same characteristics from
Chiapas
(
Mexico
) and tentatively identified it as
P. dactylopii
. However, they emphasize that the taxonomy of the
Prochiloneurus dactylopii
species complex is under study, hence, it is likely that this species is part of a complex of species that are difficult to separate. Species of the genus
Prochiloneurus
are known as hyperparasitoids of
Anagyrus
species
(
Noyes 2021
), however, its association with
P. dactylopii
and
A. kamali
is here reported for the first time.