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Published: 2021-04-01
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A new species of Doryctobracon Enderlein (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) parasitizing larvae of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera, Tephritidae), with illustrated key to species of Doryctobracon that parasitize fruit-infesting tephritids in Brazil

Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia de Catamarca (CITCA—CONICET/UNCA), Prado 366, K4700AAP. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina.
Instituto Biológico, Centro Avançado de Pesquisa em Proteção de Plantas e Saúde Animal, 13101-680, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Biológico, Centro Avançado de Pesquisa em Proteção de Plantas e Saúde Animal, 13101-680, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins, Campus Araguatins, Povoado Santa Teresa, km 5 Zona Rural, Araguatins, Tocantins, Brazil
Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Caixa Postal 9, 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Diptera Opiinae parasitoid fruit fly Anastrepha pseudoparallela Passiflora alata sweet passion fruit

Abstract

Doryctobracon maculatus Marinho, a new species of Braconidae (Opiinae) collected in the municipalities of Piracicaba and São Roque, state of São Paulo, Brazil, is described and illustrated. This new species is placed in group of species with areolate propodeum, but is easily distinguished from other species of this group, and other members of the genus by the noticeable black to dark-brown spots on the head, mesosoma and metasoma. This new species was reared in larvae of Anastrepha pseudoparallela (Diptera, Tephritidae) in passion fruits, Passiflora alata Curtis (Passifloraceae). An illustrated key to species of Doryctobracon recorded in Brazil is presented.

 

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