Scelionidae, Haliday, 1839

Iorio, Osvaldo Di & Turienzo, Paola, 2011, Insects found in birds’ nests from the Neotropical Region: addenda, corrections, and the Subantarctic Region of Argentina and adjacent countries 2950, Zootaxa 2950 (1), pp. 1-108 : 52-53

Scelionidae

Telenomus fariai fariai Costa Lima, 1936

= Telenomus fariai Costa Lima, 1936: Brewer et al. 1978, 1979, 1980.

= Telenomus fariai fariai Costa Lima, 1936: De Santis et al. 1980b [status nov.]; De Santis et al. 1981 [biol.; refs] ARGENTINA: Córdoba: Dto. Cruz del Eje, Guanaco Muerto [37 km from Cruz del Eje], captured with egg-traps inside the nests ( Brewer et al. 1978); 37 km from Cruz del Eje, end of XI-1978 through VI-1979, captured with egg-traps inside the nests ( Brewer et al. 1979); Guanaco Muerto, 22-XI-1978, 74 % of 8 parasitized eggs (853 eggs), 29-XI-1978, 2 % of 5 parasitized eggs (875 eggs), 22-XII-1978, 52 % of 5 parasitized eggs (707 eggs), 29- XII-1978, 52 % of 5 parasitized eggs (881 eggs), 28-I-1979, 100 % of 2 parasitized eggs (807 eggs), 16-II-1979, 100 % of 3 parasitized eggs (719 eggs), 23-II-1979, 95 % of 22 parasitized eggs (833 eggs), 27-II-1979, 97 % of 21 parasitized eggs (855 eggs), 10-III-1979, 80 % of 42 parasitized eggs (653 eggs), 17-III-1979, 70 % of 7 parasitized eggs (542 eggs), 31-III-1979, 100 % of 31 parasitized eggs (818 eggs), 9-IV-1979, 100 % of 11 parasitized eggs (846 eggs), 20-IV-1979, 100 % of 3 parasitized eggs (700 eggs), 27-IV-1979, 88 % of 7 parasitized eggs (705 eggs), 11-V-1979, 100 % of 9 parasitized eggs (823 eggs), 18-V-1979, 100 % of 9 parasitized eggs (780 eggs), captured with egg-traps inside the nests; also obtained from eggs collected in nests [Fig. 1] ( Brewer et al. 1980), 1- VI-1979, 100 % of 1 parasitized egg (742 eggs), 20-VI-1979, 100 % of 1 parasitized egg (833 eggs), 28-VI-1979, 100 % of 3 parasitized eggs (832 eggs), 3-VII-1979, 100 % of 1 parasitized egg (824 eggs), 14-VIII-1979, 100 % of 3 parasitized eggs (461 eggs), 5-IX-1979, 83 % of 1 parasitized egg (621 eggs), 27-IX-1979, 50 % of 2 parasitized eggs (555 eggs), 12-X-1979, 31 % of 2 parasitized eggs (723 eggs), 8-XI-1979, 38 % of 10 parasitized eggs (728 eggs), 12-XI-1979, 35 % of 2 parasitized eggs (856 eggs), 15-XII-1979, 71 % of 10 parasitized eggs (757 eggs), 27-XII-1979, 97 % of 8 parasitized eggs (406 eggs), 17-I-1980, 100 % of 8 parasitized eggs (655 eggs), 16-II-1980, 100 % of 9 parasitized eggs (667 eggs), 10-III-1980, 100 % of 6 parasitized eggs (353 eggs), 23-III-1980, 97 % of 9 parasitized eggs (434 eggs), 13-IV-1980, 87 % of 13 parasitized eggs (530 eggs), 19-IV-1980, 100 % of 6 parasitized eggs (814 eggs), 1-V-1980, 100 % of 12 parasitized eggs (687 eggs), 16-V-1980, 100 % of 2 parasitized eggs (734 eggs) (Brewer et al. 1981).

Note: Although the Aphelinidae , Eupelmidae , and Scelionidae are not directly related to the birds’ nests (except A. excavatus and T. f. fariai , obtained from eggs of Triatoma inside the nests), there are two possibilities: 1) that the remaining species were inside the nests developing in the eggs of the Triatoma that naturally lives inside the nests ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007); or 2) they were attracted from outside the nests thanks to the offer of eggs in the traps. The negative or very scarce results with the same kind of traps in domiciliary and peridomiciliary habitats (Brewer et al. 1981) give a strong support to the first possibility.

Myopsitta monachus cotorra (Vieillot, 1817)

= birds´nests: Zeledón & Rabinovich 1981.

= Myiopsitta monacha: Panzera et al. 2007: 98 [distr.; refs.]

HEMIPTERA

Reduviidae

Emesinae

Bergemesa brachamanni (Berg, 1884)

ARGENTINA: Santiago del Estero: Dto. Pellegrini, El Mojón , 17-III-1945, Romaña & Abalos leg., 1 female [ IMR 346 ] (Wygodzinsky 1950); ( Hicks 1971, following Wygodzinsky 1950) .

Triatominae

Psammolestes coreodes (Bergroth, 1911)

ARGENTINA ( Lent & Viana Martins 1940; Corrêa et al. 1964, following “Mazza 1938”; Lucena & Lucena 1965, according to Abalos & Wygodzinsky 1951, Martínez & Cichero 1972); ( Martínez et al. 1985, following Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979); Salta: near Metán, nymphs ( Blaksley & Carcavallo 1968).

Note: “Mazza 1938” is cited in the text by Corrêa et al. (1964) but the real citation corresponds to Mazza & Paterson (1938).

Triatoma delpontei Romaña & Abalos, 1947

BOLIVIA: in nests ( Panzera et al. 2007 [following Noireau et al. 2000]).

PARAGUAY: near the River Pilcomayo, in front of Misión La Paz [Arg.: Salta], “always in nests of parrots” ( Martínez & Cichero 1972); Paraguay, in nests ( Panzera et al. 2007, reference not stated).

Note: Although it is not expressely given in parrots’ nests in this place, Martínez & Cichero (1972) say that T. delpontei is always found in parrots’ nests.

[ ARGENTINA] ( Blaksley & Carcavallo 1968); exclusively in the large nests ( Usinger et al. 1966); ( Zeledón & Rabinovich 1981).

Triatoma platensis Neiva, 1913

[ ARGENTINA]: “found in nests of varius birds (with the significant exception of those of the parrot ….)” ( Usinger et al. 1966).

Triatoma infestans (Klug in Meyen, 1834)

[ BOLIVIA]: Santa Cruz: “Chaco boliviano,” in nests ( Panzera et al. 2007, following Noireau et al. 1997 2000); two T. infestans “in 1 of 11 nests of Myopsitta monacha (Boddaert) monk parrots (“cotorra”), at first these nests misidentified as belonging to A. araticaudata (F. Noireau, personal communication)” ( Ceballos et al. 2009, following Noireau et al. 1997), four T. infestans collected in 3 of 46 nests of M. monacha ( Ceballos et al. 2009, following Noireau et al. 2000).

Note: Sylvatic dark morphs from Bolivia were illustrated by Carcavallo et al. (1998a), based on Noireau et al. (1997), but the illustrations have a bad quality. Of the 4 specimens in fig. 12.1 of page 525, it is clear that the two specimens on the left side are dark morphs, but not the two specimens on the right side. These last specimens show greater yellow areas in the conexivum and light areas in the hemielytra (specimens with light areas on the hemielytra were studied and illustrated by Mazza & Jorg 1940). The other 2 specimens in fig. 12.1 of page 526 belong to the dark morphs. The origin of these 4 (or 6?) specimens was not stated, but following Noireau et al. (1997), until 1-X-1996, 4 adults were captured (2 in nests of M. m. cotorra), and another four were captured IV-1997 and IX-1997 (2 in nests of M. m. cotorra) [see Table 2 in Di Iorio & Turienzo 2009].

Triatoma sordida garciabesi Carcavallo Cichero, Martínez, Prosen & Ronderos, 1967

ARGENTINA: center and north [of the country] ( Martínez et al. 1985).

Myiopsitta monachus monachus (Boddaert, 1783)

= Myiopsitta monacha cotorra [non Vieillot, 1817]: Bar et al. 1986: error of identification.

= Myiopsitta monachus: Bar et al. 2005: 303 .

= Myiopsitta monacha: Panzera et al. 2007: 90 [distr.]

Note: According to Darrieu (1978, 1981), the subspecies that inhabits the eastern portion of Argentina (Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, and north-central Buenos Aires) corresponds to. M. m. monachus . Probably this subspecies was mentioned as M. m. cotorra because the vernacular name throughout the country is “cotorra.” COLLEMBOLA : Poduromorpha

[Undetermined sp.]

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: [localities not distriminated], from a total of 43 beds of fresh vegetal matter and one communal nest (Aramburú et al. 2009).

COLEOPTERA

Bostrichidae : Bostrichinae

[Undetermined sp.]

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: [localities not distriminated], from a total of 43 beds of fresh vegetal matter and one communal nest (Aramburú et al. 2009).

Bostrichidae : Lyctinae

[Undetermined sp.]

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: [localities not distriminated], from a total of 43 beds of fresh vegetal matter and one communal nest (Aramburú et al. 2009).