Journal of Hymenoptera Research (Mar 2014)

A new species of Horismenus Walker (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from ootheca of Liturgusa Saussure (Mantodea, Liturgusidae) from Central Amazonas, Brazil

  • Christer Hansson,
  • Diego Padua,
  • Karine Schoeninger,
  • Antonio Agudelo,
  • Marcio Oliveira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.37.6729
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 0
pp. 53 – 60

Abstract

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A new species of Horismenus Walker, H. liturgusae Hansson & Schoeninger (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), is described from material reared from an ootheca of an unidentified mantid species of genus Liturgusa Saussure (Mantodea: Liturgusidae). The new species is compared to H. argus Hansson, a species it is very similar to. Horismenus liturgusae sp. n. is gregarious and 49 adult specimens developed in the ootheca. This is the first record of a Horismenus species parasitizing mantids, and the first record of a Horismenus species from an ootheca.