Bloodiella andalusica Nowicki, 1935

Viggiani, Gennaro, Filella, Francesco & Bernardo, Umberto, 2021, The egg endoparasitoids of Macrolenes dentipes (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with description of a new species of Aprostocetus Westwood and notes on its host (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (1), pp. 57-64 : 61

Bloodiella andalusica Nowicki, 1935

In a previous paper ( Viggiani & Filella 2019), the eggs of M. dentipes were hypothesized to be the host of B. andalusica . The observations carried out in 2020 demonstrate that B. andalusica is a solitary egg endoparasitoid of M. dentipes . In May 2020 adults emerged from overwintering egg clusters of the chrysomelid host, they oviposited in fresh host eggs and a new adult emergence occurred in June, when 90 specimens of B. andalusica were reared. The trichogrammatid shows the same phenology of the eulophid A. macrolenei described above.