Abstract
We report the first record of Conura (Conura) maculata (Fabricius, 1787) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. A total of 85 adult wasps of C. maculata were obtained from 3 chrysalides of Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904, a lepidopteran pest of native and exotic palm trees. This is the first report of the occurrence of this parasitoid in the province of Corrientes, extending this species’ known distribution in the country. This is also the first report of the parasitoid-host interaction between these 2 species for Argentina.
Highlights
The parasitoids can be considered key species for maintaining communities’ equilibrium by functioning as regulators of the population density of other insects (Stireman and Singer 2003, Nájera and Souza 2010)
A total of 85 adult wasps of C. maculata were obtained from 3 chrysalides of Opsiphanes invirae amplificatus Stichel, 1904, a lepidopteran pest of native and exotic palm trees
5 died, and 3 were wild-caught parasitized (Cp)
Summary
The parasitoids can be considered key species for maintaining communities’ equilibrium by functioning as regulators of the population density of other insects (Stireman and Singer 2003, Nájera and Souza 2010). Conura are generally parasitoids of both larval and pupal stages of lepidopteran (Marchiori et al 2004, Marcicano et al 2007, SalgadoNeto and Lopes da Silva 2011, Tibcherani et al 2016), and parasitize larvae of Diptera and other Hymenoptera (Stireman and Singer 2003, Couri et al 2006), Coleoptera (Montes and Costa 2011), and Neuroptera, or are hyperparasitoids of Icneumonidae and Tachinidae (Couri et al 2006, Sakazaki et al 2011)
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