Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (Feb 2009)

Primeiro relato de Muscidifurax raptorellus Kogan & Legner, 1970 (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) no Brasil First report of Muscidifurax raptorellus Kogan & Legner, 1970) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in Brazil

  • C.H. Marchiori,
  • J.M. Miranda,
  • V.A. Costa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-09352009000100038
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 61, no. 1
pp. 273 – 275

Abstract

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This study reports the first occurrence of Muscidifurax raptorellus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in Brazil. Chicken manure samples, collected at two-week interval, were taken to the laboratory and the pupae were extracted by the method of flotation. Each pupa was placed in capsules of colorless gelatin until the emergence of dipterous or their parasitoids. In the study, ten pupae of Fannia pusio (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Fanniidae) were obtained, two of which yielded the parasitoid M. raptorellus . The percentage of parasitism was 5.0%.

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