Trichogramma nomlaki Pinto & Oatman, 1985

Querino, Ranyse B. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2019, Annotated checklist and illustrated key to the species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from South America, Zootaxa 4656 (2), pp. 201-231 : 213

Trichogramma nomlaki Pinto & Oatman, 1985

Diagnosis. Dorsal lamina deeply emarginate; medial position of parameres approximate one another along midline of the genital capsule; volsellae highly modified, exceeding parameres posteriorly.

Comments. This species is found mostly in wooded areas. The host record in an agricultural habitat is an exception ( Pinto 1999). Trichogramma nomlaki was described from a single male; subsequently, two male and one female were collected in North Carolina ( Pinto et al. 1986), and an additional specimen from Chile (unknown host) was found out at University of California collection, Riverside ( Zucchi & Monteiro 1977).

Type repository. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Type locality. Glenn Co., Stony Creek, 5 m. N. Elk Creek, California, USA.

Distribution in South America. Chile.

Host. Eggs of an undetermined hemerobiid ( Neuroptera ) on corn ( Pinto 1999).