PARASITIC WASPS (HYMENOPTERA) ASSOCIATED WITH FRUITS OF ILEX AFFINIS GARDNER (AQUIFOLIACEAE) IN BRAZIL WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW CHALCIDOIDEA

N.W Perioto,R.I.R Lara,V.A Costa

doi:10.1590/1808-1657v76p0852009

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper presents a survey of parasitic Hymenoptera obtained from fruits of Ilex affinis (Aquifoliaceae) collected in area of the Brazilian savannah (cerrado) in São Paulo State, Brazil. At the site studied, three species of Chalcidoidea,Galeopsomyia itauna sp. nov. (Eulophidae),Prodecatoma juliae sp. nov., Sycophila sp. (Eurytomidae) and one non identified species of Doryctinae (Braconidae) were found associated with I. affinis fruits.

Highlights

The cosmopolitan genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) comprising more than 400 tropical and temperate species is distributed mainly by East Asia and South America; this genus is well represented in South East Asia, Central America and North America and a few species occur in tropical Africa, tropical Australia, Europe, Hawaii, Tahiti, the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira, New Caledonia and Fiji (MANEN et al, 2002)
Ilex affinis Gardner is a shrub or small tree with rough bark and glabrous branches; the leafs are oval, lanceolate, alternate and have crenated base; the fruits are, when ripened, a globose drupe, rugose, sulcated, dark purple colored with ca. of four mm diameter (DURIGAN et al, 2004). This species occurs in weeping grounds of Brazilian savanna and is included in the official roll of endangered species of São Paulo State
Prodecatoma Ashmead, 1913 (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) is eminently a pan-tropical genus, with 45 species (DALMOLIN et al, 2004), twelve of which occur in Brazil (NOYES, 2003)

Summary

Introduction

The cosmopolitan genus Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) comprising more than 400 tropical and temperate species is distributed mainly by East Asia and South America; this genus is well represented in South East Asia, Central America and North America and a few species occur in tropical Africa, tropical Australia, Europe, Hawaii, Tahiti, the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira, New Caledonia and Fiji (MANEN et al, 2002). The genus Galeopsomyia Girault, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) comprises 19 species distributed by the New World, 14 of which have a Neotropical distribution and seven of them were recorded to Brazil (NOYES, 2003; PERIOTO et al, 2007).

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