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Issue: Vol. 4232 No. 1: 15 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.11
Page range: 137–143
Abstract views: 94
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New species, notes and new records of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) in Brazil

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Meio-Norte, 64006-220 Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Instituto Biológico, Centro Experimental Central do Instituto Biológico, Alameda dos Vidoeiros, 1097, 13101-680, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Hymenoptera taxonomy egg parasitoids insect hosts

Abstract

Two new species of Trichogramma are described: Trichogramma piracicabense sp. nov. and T. valmiri sp. nov. Additionally, T. manicobai from eggs of the cassava hornworm Erinnyis ello is redescribed, and new records on the distribution and host associations of species of Trichogramma from Brazil are presented.

 

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