First rearing records of Bloodiella andalusica Nowicki, 1935 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Trichogrammatidae) in France, from the eggs of Labidostomis taxicornis and Macrolenes dentipes (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Clytrini)

Abstract

Bloodiella andalusica is a solitary egg-parasitoid with a body length of 0.5–0.7 mm, recorded from mainland France for the first time. Specimens were reared in Var, in the Provence-AlpesCôte d'Azur region of South-eastern France, from egg clusters of two leaf beetle species: Labidostomis taxicornis (Fabricius, 1792) and Macrolenes dentipes (Olivier, 1808). This is the first record of B. andalusica from L. taxicornis, M. dentipes having been recorded as a host previously in Italy. DNA barcode sequences of B. andalusica were obtained and deposited in Genbank. Our observations on this species are summarised and illustrated.