Pachyneuron sp.

Montes-Rodríguez, José Mauricio, Kondo, Takumasa & Gaimari, Stephen D., 2024, Natural enemies of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae), with description of a new species of Leucopina Malloch (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae), Zootaxa 5424 (4), pp. 423-436 : 427

Pachyneuron sp.

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Santander: 1 ♀, Bucaramanga, Barrio La Aurora , 07°07′35″N, 73°07′00″W, 1010 m a.s.l., 10.i.2020, coll. J. Montes, ex Malvaviscus sp. [ CTNI] .

Notes. There are no taxonomic revisions of the genus Pachyneuron Walker , in the Neotropics, which makes difficult the identification at the species level. Species of the genus Pachyneuron could fit anywhere in this system, as primary parasitoids (of PHM or its predators) or hyperparasitoids (of PHM parasitoids). Species of this genus have been reported as parasitoids of Chamaemyiidae , Coccinellidae , and PHM and other Coccomorpha, as well as hyperparasitoids of other encyrtids including species of Anagyrus and Gyranusoidea ( Noyes 2021) . Further studies are required to establish its host.