Trissolcus thyantae Ashmead

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Trissolcus thyantae Ashmead, 1893: 162, 163 (original description, keyed); Brues 1916: 550 (description, keyed); Kieffer 1926: 127, 128 (description, keyed); Masner and Muesebeck 1968: 74 (lectotype designation); Johnson 1985a: 108, 111 (description, keyed).

Diagnosis.

Trissolcus thyantae is most similar to T. occiduus and T. valkyria . It may be separated from T. occiduus by the narrow malar region and from both by the lack of a complete mesopleural carina.

Link to distribution map.

[http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=3321]

Associations.

Emerged from egg of Euschistus Dallas: [ Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Pentatomidae]; emerged from egg of Euschistus variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois): [ Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Pentatomidae]; emerged from egg of Panthea furcilla (Packard): [ Lepidoptera: Glossata: Noctuoidea: Noctuidae]; emerged from egg of Pentatomidae: [ Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Pentatomidae]; emerged from egg of Pinaceae: [ Pinales: Pinaceae]; emerged from egg of Thyanta custator (Fabricius): [ Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Pentatomidae]; collected on pine: [ Pinales: Pinaceae]; emerged from egg of pine: [ Pinales: Pinaceae]; collected on soybean: [ Fabales: Fabaceae]

Material examined.

Lectotype, female: UNITED STATES: AL, Dallas Co., Selma, IX-1880, reared from egg, E. A. Schwarz, USNMENT00989048 (deposited in USNM). Non-type: UNITED STATES: 1 female, OSUC 266773 (OSUC). Other material: (2 females, 27 sex unrecorded) CANADA: 1 female, 6 sex unrecorded, OSUC 17812 (BMNH); OSUC 145196, 145368, 398870-398871 (CNCI); OSUC 145572, 76328 (OSUC). UNITED STATES: 1 female, 21 sex unrecorded, OSUC 157505-157506, 157512-157520, 76320-76327 (OSUC); USNMENT00764991, USNMENT00764994, USNMENT00979296 (USNM).