Title:	Parasitoids (hymenoptera) of mealybug pests (hemiptera: pseudococcidae) from southern Brazil: molecular and morphological characterization.
Authors:	SILVA, V. C. P. da AQUINO, D. A. CROCHARD, D. MALAUSA, T. BOTTON, M. PALERO, F.
Affiliation:	VITOR CEZAR PACHECO DA SILVA, Unidad de Entomología, Facultad de Agronomía, Univ de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay DANIEL ALEJANDRO AQUINO, Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CONICET – UNLP), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina DIDIER CROCHARD, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech INRA, Sophia Antipolis, PACA, France THIBAUT MALAUSA, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech INRA, Sophia Antipolis, PACA, France MARCOS BOTTON, CNPUV FERRAN PALERO, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Valencia, Paterna, Spain.
Date Issued:	2020
Citation:	Neotropical Entomology, Dec. 2020.
Description:	Parasitoids of three mealybug pests (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), Planococcus ficus (Signoret), Pseudococcus sociabilis Hambleton, and Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret) have been identified for the first time in Brazil. Mealybugs were collected in fruit-growing areas along southern Brazil during 2013?2016. An integrative approach, combining morphological and molecular methods, was used to identify the Brazilian parasitoids to the species level. Fifteen species were recorded, including 14 primary parasitoids belonging to Encyrtidae and Platygastridae and a single secondary parasitoid species belonging to Signiphoridae. The encyrtid parasitoids Acerophagus flavidulus (Brèthes), Anagyrus calyxtoi Noyes and Zaplatycerus sp., and the signiphorid secondary parasitoid Chartocerus axillaris De Santis are reported for the first time in Brazil.
NAL Thesaurus:	DNA barcoding Pseudococcidae Biological control agents Encyrtidae
Keywords:	Integrative taxonomy
DOI:	10.1007/s13744-020-00841-3
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPUV)