Check List 17(2): 709-712, doi: 10.15560/17.2.709
Distributional range expansion and first record of the parasitic wasp Horismenus liturgusae Hansson & Schoeninger, 2014 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) on Liturgusa maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 (Mantodea, Liturgusidae) from Ecuador
Pablo Sebastián Padrón‡, Pamela Estefanía Andrade‡, Lucía Vanessa Ortiz‡, Madelein Carmen Campaña‡‡ Entomology Laboratory, Museo de Zoología, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
Corresponding author: Pablo Sebastián Padrón ( sebastianpadronm@yahoo.com ) Academic editor: Sandor Buys © Pablo Sebastián Padrón, Pamela Estefanía Andrade, Lucía Vanessa Ortiz, Madelein Carmen Campaña. 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:
Padrón PS, Andrade PE, Ortiz LV, Campaña MC (2021) Distributional range expansion and first record of the parasitic wasp Horismenus liturgusae Hansson & Schoeninger, 2014 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) on Liturgusa maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 (Mantodea, Liturgusidae) from Ecuador. Check List 17(2): 709-712. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.709 |  |
Abstract
The presence of the parasitic wasp Horismenus liturgusae Hansson & Schoeninger, 2014 is recorded for the first time in Ecuador. This new record significantly expands the known distributional range of the species by more than 2000 km west of its type locality in Manaus, Brazil. In addition, the Neotropical bark mantid Liturgusa maya Saussure & Zehntner, 1894 is reported as a host, and Horismenus specimens were reared from the mantids ootheca.
Keywords
Amazon, Chalcidoidea, Morona Santiago, Neotropics