Uscana espinae Pintureau & Gerding, 1999

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 : 329

Uscana espinae Pintureau & Gerding, 1999

Hosts. Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) ( Pintureau et al. 1999) on Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( Bonet et al. 2012); Acanthoscelides obvelatus Bridwell on Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( Bonet et al. 2012); Acanthoscelides oblongoguttatus (Fahraeus) on Acacia sphaerocephala Schltdl. & Cham. ( Bonet et al. 2012) ; Mimosestes humeralis (Gyllenhal) on Acacia pennatula (Schltdl. & Cham.) Benth. ( Bonet et al. 2012) .

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL: Chile, Mexico * ( Bonet et al. 2012).

Note. Similar to the previous species, Pintereau et al. (1999) reports Pseudopaclrymerinn spinipes (Erichson) on Acacia caven (Molina) Molina and Scutobruchus ceratioborus (Philippi) on Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz as primary hosts of Uscana espinae Pintureau & Gerding. However , in the Materials and Methods they mention that Uscana species were reared from A. obtectus (Say) .