Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston)

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 : 45

Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston)

Distribution: United States of America, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Saint Vincent Island, Grenada, Trinidad, Madeira, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Morroco, Egypt, Senegal, Ivory Cost, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Japon, China, Hawaii, Montserrat Island, New Caledonian, Fidji, French Polynesia, Tonga, Cook Island, Vanuatu and Australia ( La Porta and Crouzel 1984, Johnson 1985, 2004, Molinari et al. 2008). New country records for Colombia and Uruguay, new state record for Brazil, San Pablo, and new province record for Argentina, Córdoba.

Material studied: Colombia, Valle del Cauca: 2 females and 1 male, IX-2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Pentatomidae on Macadamia (Proteaceae) ; Quindío, Calarca, Vereda Española: 1 male, IX- 2005, Sánchez Sosa coll., reared from eggs of Podisus sp. on Macadamia . Brasil, San Pablo, Campinas: 60 females and 10 males, XII-1984, da Silva coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii ; 1 female and 1 male, 22-III-1991, Regina coll., reared from eggs of Piezodorus guildinii .

Hosts records: Nezara viridula , Acrosternum aseadum Rolston, Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (Dallas) , Dichelops furcatus (Fabricius) , Euschistus heros (Fabricius) , Murgantia histrionica (Hahn) , Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) , Podisus maculiventris Say , Podisus sp., ( Hemiptera , Pentatomidae ) and Scutelleridae sp. ( Johnson 1985, 2004; Medeiros et al. 1997, 1998; Molinari et al. 2008).