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A morphological, biological and molecular approach reveals four cryptic species of Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), egg parasitoids of Pentatomidae (Hemiptera)

Francesco TortoriciLuciana TavellaVirgilio CalecaMaryam Asadi-farfarSilvia T. MoraglioElijah J. TalamasMarco Giuseppe Pansa

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0106 biological sciencesSpecies complexInsectaArthropoda010607 zoologyBiological pest controlZoologyPlatygastroideaHymenoptera010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesbrown marmorated stink bugBiological control taxonomy brown marmorated stink bugHemipterataxonomyPentatomidaelcsh:ZoologyAnimalialcsh:QL1-991Brown marmorated stink bugEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsScelionidaeTrissolcusbiologyPentatomidaebiology.organism_classificationHemipteraHymenopteraSettore AGR/11 - Entomologia Generale E ApplicataInsect ScienceBiological controlTaxonomy (biology)PentatomoideaScelionidae

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Accurate identification of parasitoids is crucial for biological control of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug,Halyomrpha halys(Stål). A recent work by Talamas et al. (2017) revised the Palearctic fauna ofTrissolcusAshmead, egg-parasitoids of stink bugs, and treated numerous species as junior synonyms ofT. semistriatus(Nees von Esenbeck). In the present paper, we provide a detailed taxonomic history and treatment ofT. semistriatusand the species treated as its synonyms by Talamas et al. (2017) based on examination of primary types, molecular analyses and mating experiments.Trissolcus semistriatus,T. belenus(Walker),T. colemani(Crawford), andT. manteroi(Kieffer) are here recognized as valid and a key to species is provided. The identification tools provided here will facilitate the use ofTrissolcuswasps as biological control agents and as the subject of ecological studies.

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2019-11-18
https://zenodo.org/record/3553345