On the identity of Trichogramma demoraesi Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), with a checklist and a key to Trichogramma species associated with Erinnyis ello (L.) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in Brazil

JACI M. VIEIRA; RANYSE B. QUERINO; ROBERTO A. ZUCCHI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.1.8

Issue: Vol. 3869 No. 1: 29 Sept. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-09-29

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.1.8

Page range: 83–89

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On the identity of Trichogramma demoraesi Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), with a checklist and a key to Trichogramma species associated with Erinnyis ello (L.) (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in Brazil

JACI M. VIEIRA⁺⁻
RANYSE B. QUERINO⁺⁻
ROBERTO A. ZUCCHI⁺⁻

Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Meio-Norte, 64006-220 Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.

Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.

taxonomy Trichogramma marandobai checklist identification key

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Abstract

Specimens collected from eggs of the cassava hornworm Erinnyis ello, originally identified as T. demoraesi, were compared with the paratype of this species. Based on morphological analysis, the specimens from E. ello actually belong to Trichogramma marandobai Brun, Moraes and Soares, 1986. Therefore, T. demoraesi is not a parasitoid of the eggs of E. ello, a major pest of cassava. The main features separating the two species, and a checklist and key to the species of Trichogramma associated with E. ello are presented.