Trissolcus urichi Crawford

Margaría, Cecilia B., Loiácono, Marta S. & Lanteri, Analía A., 2009, New geographic and host records for scelionid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitoids of insect pests in South America, Zootaxa 2314, pp. 41-49 : 46

Trissolcus urichi Crawford

Distribution: Mexico, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Panama, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent Island, Antigua and Barbados, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay ( Johnson 1987b, 2004; La Porta 2000a, b; Molinari et al. 2008).

Material examined: Brazil, Paraná, Curitiba: 140 females and 40 males, V-2003, Siqueira coll., reared from eggs of Pellaea stictita ( Hemiptera , Pentatomidae ) on Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae) ; Mato Grosso, Campo Verde, Fazenda Mourăo: 2 females and 2 males, 18-II and 18-III-2004, Sylvie coll., reared form eggs of bugs on Oryza sativa (Poaceae) .

Hosts records: Acrosternum aseadum Rolston , Antiteuchus variolosus Westwood, Brontocoris nigrolimbatus (Spinola), Dichelops furcatus (Fabricius) , Edessa meditabunda Fabricius , E. rufomarginata ( De Geer) , Edessa spp., Euschistus heros (Fabricius) , Nezara viridula (Linneo) , Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) , Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) , Tibraca limbativentris Stal and Thyanta perditor (Fabricius) ( Hemiptera , Pentatomidae ), and Sphyrocoris obliquus ( Hemiptera , Scutelleridae ) ( Barrera 1973; Johnson 1987b; Medeiros et al. 1997, 1998; La Porta 2000 a, b; Zanuncio et al. 2000; and Rebolledo et al. 2006).

Pellaea stictita is a new pentatomid host record. A case of two scelionid species emerging from a single egg mass, T. urichi + Gryon vitripenne is herein reported for some egg batches of an undetermined bug from Mato Grosso.