Trichogramma bennetti Nagaraja & Nagarkatti, 1973

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 : 205-206

Trichogramma bennetti Nagaraja & Nagarkatti, 1973

Diagnosis. Volsellae distinctly lobed laterally, intervolsellar process subtriangular, only about half length of volsellae; dorsal lamina broader at base and narrowing to linguiform posterior extension, this extension concealing most of volsellae.

Comments. It is readily separated from T. atopovirilia by its parameres not arcuate and the genital capsule small and oval; and from T. pusillum Querino & Zucchi, 2003 , by its volsellae modified, the intervolsellar process subtriangular and about half the length of the volsellae. The record of T. bennetti in Brazil was a compilation error ( Querino & Zucchi 2007). In Venezuela, the species was described as T. guariquensis [sic] Velásquez & Terán, which is a junior synonym of T. bennetti according to Velaìsquez & Teìran 2003.

Type repository. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. (holotype) and Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Indian Station, Bangalore, India (paratypes).

Type locality. Trinidad (West Indies).

Distribution in South America. Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela.

Hosts. Hypsipyla ferrealis (Hampson, 1929) ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ) on Carapa guianensis Aubl. (Meliaceae) ; Anomis sp. ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) on Malva sp. ( Malvaceae ); and on eggs of an undetermined lepidopteran on Spiracantha cornifolia Kunth (Asteraceae) ( Velásquez & Terán 1995).