A new species of Horismenus Walker (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from ootheca of Liturgusa Saussure (Mantodea, Liturgusidae) from Central Amazonas, Brazil

By

Hansson, Christer
Pádua, Diego Galvão de
Schoeninger, Karine
Agudelo R., Antonio Arnovis.
Oliveira, Marcio Luiz de

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

Journal of Hymenoptera research

Volume

37

Pages

53-60

Subjects

Chalcidoidea , Entedoninae , gregarious parasitoid , parasitic wasp

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Washington, D.C International Society of Hymenopterists

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.37.6729

 

Abstract

A new species of Horismenus Walker, H. liturgusae Hansson & Schoeninger (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), is described from material reared from an ootheca of an unidentified mantid species of genus Liturgusa Saussure (Mantodea: Liturgusidae). The new species is compared to H. argus Hansson, a species it is very similar to. Horismenus liturgusae sp. n. is gregarious and 49 adult specimens developed in the ootheca. This is the first record of a Horismenus species parasitizing mantids, and the first record of a Horismenus species from an ootheca.