Paracrias pluteus (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) in Brazil: new distribution and host records, and with a new host group for Paracrias

By

Pikart, Tiago
Souza, Gabriely
Costa, Valmir A.
Hansson, Christer
Zanuncio, José Cola

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

102

Pages

77-82

Subjects

Brazil , Bruchinae , Eulophidae , Hymenoptera , new distribution , Paracrias pluteus , parasitoid , Seeds

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.102.1343

 

Abstract

Bruchines damage agricultural crops and trees, reducing the quantity and quality of the seeds. The aim of this study is to record, for the first time, Paracrias pluteus as a parasitoid on the immature stages of Sennius spodiogaster and S. cupreatus on seeds of Melanoxylon brauna in Teixeiras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Paracrias pluteus is a parasitoid without previous host records and known only from Costa Rica. Specimens obtained in this study add to knowledge of the biology of Paracrias species with a new host group (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), and the first host record and a new distribution for P. pluteus.