Check List 14(6): 1155-1159, doi: 10.15560/14.5.1155
First record of Conura (Conura) maculata (Fabricius, 1787) (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) parasitizing Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina
Paula Belén Gervazoni‡,
Manuel Osvaldo Arbino‡ ‡ Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina
Corresponding author:
Paula Belén Gervazoni
(
paulabelengerv@gmail.com
)
Academic editor: Gabriela P Camacho © 2018 Paula Belén Gervazoni, Manuel Osvaldo Arbino. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Gervazoni PB, Arbino MO (2018) First record of Conura (Conura) maculata (Fabricius, 1787) (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) parasitizing Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Check List 14(6): 1155-1159. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.5.1155 | |
Abstract
We report the first record of Conura (Conura) maculata (Fabricius, 1787) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. A total of 85 adult wasps of C. maculata were obtained from 3 chrysalides of Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904, a lepidopteran pest of native and exotic palm trees. This is the first report of the occurrence of this parasitoid in the province of Corrientes, extending this species’ known distribution in the country. This is also the first report of the parasitoid-host interaction between these 2 species for Argentina.
Keywords Chalcidoidea; natural enemy; palms; parasitoids wasps.