Telenomus podisi Ashmead

Margaría, Cecilia B., Loiácono, Marta S. & Lanteri, Analía A., 2009, New geographic and host records for scelionid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitoids of insect pests in South America, Zootaxa 2314, pp. 41-49 : 43-44

Telenomus podisi Ashmead

Distribution: Canadá, United States of America, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Caiman Islands, Grenada, French Guyana, Saint Vincent Islands, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina ( De Santis and Vidal Sarmiento 1979; Johnson 1984; 2004; Loiácono and Margaría 2002). New country record for Uruguay; and new province records for Argentina, Buenos Aires and Tucumán.

Material examined: Colombia, Quindío, Calarca, Vereda Española: 4 females, IX-2005, Sánchez coll., reared from eggs of Podisus sp. ( Hemiptera : Pentatomidae ) on Macadamia (Proteaceae) ; 1 female and 1 male, VIII-2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Loxa sp. ( Hemiptera : Pentatomidae ) on Macadamia .

Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Dourados, Ponta Pörá: 3 females and 1 male, 23-IX-2005, 4 females and 1 male, 7-IV-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; Dourados, Itapará: 2 females and 2 males, 9-V-2005, 2 females and 4 males, 30-III-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; Dourados, Barreñao: 5 females and 2 males, 1-II-2006, Arce Gomez coll.; reared from eggs of Dichelops melacanthus (Dallas) ( Hemiptera : Pentatomidae ) on Zea maiz . Argentina, Tucumán, Leales, 6 females, 25-II-07, Berta coll., collected with mesh; Buenos Aires, Irala: 12 females and 2 males, 10-II-2001, Corral coll., reared from eggs of Nezara viridula (L.) on Glycine max (Fabaceae) ; 25 de Mayo, Gobernador Ugarte: 8 females and 1 male, 16-II-2001, Corral coll., reared from eggs of Nezara viridula on Glycine max . Uruguay, Artigas: 5 females and 5 males, 4-II-1947, Ruffinnelli coll., reared from eggs of pentatomid, Soriano, Dolores: 6 females and 15 males, II and III-2004, Ávila coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii ( Hemiptera : Pentatomidae ) on Glycine max ; Paysandú: 22 females and 11 males, I, II and III-2004, Castiglioni coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii on Glycine max ; Colonia, La Estanzuela: 32 females and 35 males, I, II and III-2005, Alzugaray coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii on pastures.

Host records: Pentatomidae , Scutelleridae ( Diolcus chrysorrhoeus (Fabricius) and Coreidae ( Hemiptera : Heteroptera) and Auchenorrhyncha ( Cicadellidae ). Within Pentatomidae the species have been reported for eggs of Acrosternum hilare (Say) , Banasa dimidiata (Say) , Brochymena sp., Chlorochroa sayi (Stâl) , Cosmopepla bimaculata (Thomas) , C. carnifex Fabricius , Diolcus chrysorrhoeus (Fabricius) , Euchistus impictiventris Stal, E. heros (Fabricius) , E. servus (Say) , E. tristigmus Dallas , E. variolarius Palisot et Beauvois , Euthyrhynchus floridanus (Linneo) , Holcostethus limborarius (Stal) , Nezara viridula , Oebalus insularis Stal, O. poecilus (Dallas) , O. pugnax (Fabricius) , O. ypsilongriseus ( De Geer) , Peribalus limbolarius Stal , Piezodorus guildinii Westwood , Podisus maculiventris (Say) , P. nigrispinus Dallas , P. placidus Uhler , P. serieventris Uhler , Podisus sp., Solubea poecila (Dallas) , Solubea pugnax (Fabricius) , Trichopepla semivittata (Say) and Thyanta custator ( De Santis and Vidal Sarmiento 1979; Johnson 1984, 2004; Medeiros et al. 1997; Guharay 1999; Loiácono and Margaría 2002; Rider 2006). Loxa sp. is a new pentatomid host.

Two cases of scelionid species emerging from a single egg mass ( T. podisi + Trissolcus teretis and T. podisi + Trissolcus brochymenae ) are herein reported for Piezodorus guildinii in Uruguay.