Larval endoparasitoids (Hymenoptera) of frugivorous flies (Diptera, Tephritoidea) reared from fruits of the cerrado of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil

• Published in: Revista brasileira de entomologia Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 181 - 186
• Main Authors: Uchôa-Fernandes, Manoel A.(Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Laboratório de Insetos Frugívoros), Molina, Rosa M. da S.(Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Laboratório de Insetos Frugívoros), Oliveira, Isaias de(Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Laboratório de Insetos Frugívoros), Zucchi, Roberto A.(Universidade de São Paulo Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz Departamento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agrícola), Canal, Nelson A.(Universidad del Tolima Facultad de Agronomia), Díaz, Norma B.(Museo de La Plata Departamento Científico de Entomología)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia 2003; Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia
• Subjects: Biocontrol; Biocontrol/fruit fly; Lonchaeids; Lonchaeids/parasitoids
• ISSN: 0085-5626

This paper presents a five years survey of endoparasitoids obtained from the larvae of frugivorous Tephritidae and Lonchaeidae flies. The insects were reared from cultivated and wild fruits collected in areas of the cerrado in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The flies obtained from 14 host fruit species were eight Anastrepha species, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) (Tephritidae); Dasiops sp. and Neosilba spp. (Lonchaeidae). Eleven parasitoid species were collected: Braconidae - Asobara anastrephae (Muesebek, 1958), Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti, 1911), D. fluminensis (Costa Lima, 1938), Opius bellus Gahan, 1930 and Utetes anastrephae (Viereck, 1913); Figitidae - Aganaspis nordlanderi Wharton, 1998, Lopheucoila anastrephae (Rhower, 1919), Odontosema anastrephae (Borgmeier, 1935) and Trybliographa infuscata Gallardo, Díaz & Uchôa-Fernandes, 2000 and, Pteromalidae - Spalangia gemina Boucek, 1963 and S. endius Walker, 1839. In all cases only one parasitoid emerged per puparium. D. areolatus was the most abundant and frequent parasitoid of fruit fly species, as was L. anastrephae in Neosilba spp. larvae. This is the first record of A. nordlanderi in the midwestern Brazilian region.