A new species of Rileya Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) from Brazil associated with Zalepidota Rübsaamen (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Abstract

Rileya priscillae Perioto and Lara sp. nov. (Eurytomidae: Rileynae) is described and illustrated. The new species was reared from galls induced by Zalepidota sp. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in an unidentified species of plant collected at Estação Ecológica de Jataí, in Luiz Antônio, São Paulo, Brazil. Zalepidota Rübsaamen is newly confirmed as a host of Rileya which is also a new record to the state of São Paulo.

Keywords

• extension of geographic range
• galls
• rileynae
• zalepidota