The African and Asiatic species of Trichospilus and Cotterellia (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae)

Abstract

In Trichospilus (pupal parasites of Lepidoptera) the species are keyed out, T. ferrierei sp.n. is described from Uganda, T. vorax sp.n. from Ivory Coast (also Angola and the Kenya-Ugandan border) and T. boops sp.n. from Kenya. The known data on the South Asiatic T. pupivora Ferrière and T. diatraeae Kurian & Margabandhu are reviewed. Similarly the Cotterellia species (parasites of Hispine and Lepidopterous leaf-miners) are keyed out, and C. nitifrons sp.n. from West Malaysia and C. javana sp.n. from Java are described. The other species of the genus are annotated, including the African C. lamellata (Kerrich) comb.n. (from Chrysocharis) and C. podagrica Waterston, the Madagascan and East African C. pilosa (Risbec) comb.n. (from Eurycranium, Pteromalidae), the Ceylonese C. lankensis Kerrich and the mainly New Guinean C. insularis Kerrich.

Ocorrência de Trichospilus diatraeae (Hym.: Eulophidae) em broca-das-cucurbitáceas, no Brasil

“…foi registrada em diferentes países da África, Ásia e Américas (Boucek, 1976;Bennett et al, 1987;Ubaidillah, 2006 O parasitóide T. diatraeae (Cherian & Margabandhu, 1942) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) é caracterizado por apresentar ovos com tamanho médio de 0,2 mm de comprimento, hialinos, sem esculturações, himenopteriformes e um pouco alongados nas extremidades, tendo período de incubação aproximado de 24 horas. As larvas de 1 e 2 dias tem em média 0,35 mm de comprimento e apresentam cutícula transparente que torna-se esbranquiçada no estádio seguinte.…”

Temperatura e tempo de refrigeração de pupas de Anticarsia gemmatalis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) afetam parâmetros biológicos de Trichospilus diatraeae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)?

“…Cold storage (0 o C or 5 o C) of unparasitized A. gemmatalis pupae or with immature stage (pupae) of parasitoid in it, for more than one day, negatively affects reproduction of T. diatraeae. (PEREIRA et al, 2008;ZACHÉ et al, 2010) e tem potencial para o controle biológico em culturas como cana-de-açúcar, milho e algodão na África, Ásia e Américas (BOUČEK, 1976;FÁVERO, 2009;GRANCE, 2010;RODRIGUES, 2010).…”

New Record of Trichospilus Diatraeae Margabandhu & Cherian, 1942 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) Parasitizing Sarsina Violascens (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1856) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) in Brazil

“…Trichospilus diatraeae is a gregarious pupal parasitoid that preferentially attacks insects in the order Lepidoptera (Bouček 1976). It has been recorded as a parasitoid of the families Crambidae (Cherian and Margabanghu 1942), Noctuidae (Etienne and Viette 1973), Pyralidae, (Etienne and Viette 1973;Bouček 1976;Bennett et al 1987), Nymphalidae (Bouček 1976), Geometridae (Bennett et al 1987), Pieridae (Torres-Bauza 1994), Arctiidae (Paron and Berti-Filho 2000), and Oecophoridae (Oliveira et al 2005).…”

“…Trichospilus Ferriere, 1930 is a small genus in the tribe Eulophini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with eight described species (Ferriere 1930;Cherian and Margabandhu 1942;Bouček 1976;Ubaidillah 2006;Noyes 2003). Of the eight species in this genus, three [Trichospilus boops (Bouček 1976); Trichospilus ferrierei (Bouček 1976); Trichospilus vorax (Bouček 1976)] were found in Africa, while Trichospilus lutelineatus (Liao 1987) was found only in Zhejiang, China (Liao et al 1987;Zhu et al 2000Zhu et al , 2002.…”

“…Of the eight species in this genus, three [Trichospilus boops (Bouček 1976); Trichospilus ferrierei (Bouček 1976); Trichospilus vorax (Bouček 1976)] were found in Africa, while Trichospilus lutelineatus (Liao 1987) was found only in Zhejiang, China (Liao et al 1987;Zhu et al 2000Zhu et al , 2002. T. striatus (Ubaidillah 2006) and T. politus (Ubaidillah 2006) were described from Java and Sulawesi, Indonesia (Ubaidillah 2006).…”