Parasitoids of Chrysopidae Eggs in Sinaloa Mexico

Abstract

The eggs parasitoids <i>Myartsevaia chrysopae</i> (Crawford) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), <i>Telenomus lobatus</i> Johnson, <i>Telenomus tridentatus</i> Johnson (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) and <i>Trichogramma atopovirilia</i> Oatman and Platner (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) are reported for the first time or in new localities in Mexico. Their occurrence was first discovered in 2018 during a survey of parasitism on chrysopid eggs, conducted on <i>Sorghum bicolor</i> L. Moench (Poales: Poaceae) and <i>Zea mays</i> L. (Poales: Poaceae) in different locations in Sinaloa, Mexico. The identity of the parasitoids was determined by morphology and for both species of <i>Telenomus</i> the barcode region of the cytochrome oxidase 1 gene (CO1) was generated to facilitate molecular diagnosis of these species in future studies.