Ocorrência de Astraptes talus (Cramer, 1777) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) em Associação com Mucuna pruriens (Fabaceae) e seus Parasitóides (Hymenoptera) em Seropédica, RJ

Authors

  • André Luis Santos Resende Universidade Federal de Lavras
  • Elen Lima Aguiar-Menezes
  • José Guilherme Marinho Guerra
  • Marcelo Teixeira Tavares
  • Eurípedes Barsanulfo Menezes

Keywords:

Insecta, Pyrginae, velvet bean, tri-trophic relationship

Abstract

This study reports Mucuna pruriens DC. as host plant of Astraptes talus (Cramer) in Seropedica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was recorded the primary parasitism by two species of Hymenoptera: one of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Braconidae) and Horismenus opsiphanis (Schrottky) (Eulophidae), and the hyperparasitism by Conura immaculata (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). 

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Published

2011-01-10

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Comunicaciones Cortas