Spalangia leiopleura Gibson, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): first record from Brazil

By

Juliato, Barbara S
Siqueira, Matheus A
Costa, Valmir A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-7-11

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

71--74

Subjects

Biodiversity , Chalcidoidea , Spalangiinae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.71

 

Abstract

Spalangia leiopleura Gibson, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) is reported for the first time from Brazil. One female was collected using a Möricke trap at the Reserva Biológica do Jaíba, municipality of Matias Cardoso, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 19–22 May 2015. This species was previously known only from North America, between about 40° N in USA to Tamaulipas state in northern Mexico. Thus, our new record extends the known distribution of S. leiopleura southward about 7,300 km, and represents a new national record for Brazil and a new record for South America and the Neotropical Region.