Do Trichogramma minutum Riley and Trichogramma bennetti Nagaraja & Nagarkatti (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) occur in Brazil?

Abstract

Neotropical Entomology 36(1): 145-146 (2007)

Diversity and Hosts of Trichogramma in the New World, with Emphasis in South America

“…In fact, they were based on the use of an available name in the literature, without appropriate species identification. Nevertheless, surveys on Trichogramma species conducted in the past 20 years at several Brazilian locations, including the Luiz de Queiroz campus, in Piracicaba, SP, where, in the 1980's, specimens of T. minutum from Antibes (France) were reared, were unable to detect T. minutum in the field (Querino and Zucchi 2007a). Also, the record of T. minutum for Venezuela is a misidentification of T. fuentesi (Velásquez and Terán 2003).…”

Annotated checklist and illustrated key to the species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from South America

“…Finally, an illustrated key is provided for the species treated here. (Querino & Zucchi 2007). In Venezuela, the species was described as T.…”

Trichogramma(Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) Species, Egg Parasitoids ofDiatraea saccharalis(Lepidoptera: Crambidae) on Sugarcane (Poales: Poaceae) in Argentina

“…However, care must be taken about such information, considering that consistent male genitalia characters for species identification were employed only from the beginning of the 1970s. Previous records generally were not the result of taxonomic identification, i.e., they were based on the use of an available name found in the literature, without appropriate species confirmation (Querino & Zucchi 2007). Therefore, the goal of this study was to identify egg parasitoids of D. saccharalis on sugarcane crops from Tucumán, Argentina, undertaken as a first step to develop a biological control program.…”