Theocolax elegans (Westwood, 1874)

Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 4638 (3), pp. 301-343 : 325

Theocolax elegans (Westwood, 1874)

Hosts. Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) infesting Phaseolus vulgaris L., Cicer arietinum L., Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ( Singh et al. 1996) and Triticum sp. (Loosjes 1957); Callosobruchus quadrimaculatus (Fabricius) ( Thompson 1958) ; Callosobruchus analis (Fabricius) infesting Phaseolus vulgaris L., Cicer arietinum L., and Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ( Singh et al. 1996); Callosobruchus chinensis (L.); Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius) ; Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman) .

Distribution. AFROTROPICAL: Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo. AUSTRALASIAN: Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia). INDO-AUSTRALIAN: Guam, Indonesia (Java (* Bali )), Malaysia, United State of America (Hawaii). MALAGASY: Madagascar. NEARCTIC: Canada (British Columbia, Quebec), United States of America (California, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia). NEOTROPICAL: Argentina, Belize, Brazil (Sao Paulo), French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Uruguay. ORIENTAL: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Pakistan, Thailand. PALEARC- TIC: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Netherlands, North Africa, Peoples’ Republic of China (Guangdong (Kwangtung), Hubei (Hupeh)), Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Note. Asl et al. (2009) cited Callosobruchus sp. as host of T. elegans , but they did not reference who did the original report.