Article Type : Research Article
Authors : Marchiori CH
Keywords : Beetle; Phyllophaga; Pelecinus; Pelecinus polyturator; Flies
Species
of Pelecanidae have been reared on larvae of Melolonthinae (Coleoptera,
Scarabaeidae), especially in species of Phyllophagous, and apparently Pelecinus
polyturator (Drury, 1773) (Hymenoptera: Pelecanidae). It is a solitary
koinobiont endoparasitoid of Phyllophaga anxia (LeConte, 1850), P. polyturator,
Podischnus rugosa (Melsheimer, 1846) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae)
and has been bred from Podischnus agenor (Olivier, 1789) (Coleoptera,
Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). The structure and movements of the metasoma in the
female of P. polyturator. The genus Pelecinus and recognize three species.
Females introduce the ovipositor into the soil to reach the beetle larva,
flies, green lacewings, and sawflies. The objective is to describe the
Pelecinidae Family (Insecta: Hymenoptera) as parasitoids of Melolonthinae
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) larvae. The bibliographic search used the following
databases: Biological Abstract
(https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/biological-abstracts),
Academia.edu (https://www.academia.edu
Researchgate (https://www.researchgate.net/) and Frontiers
(http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/<DOI>). The articles were
published from 2002 to 2022 in indexed scientific research, book scientific
chapters, these banks, university dissertations, national and international
scientific articles, scientific journals, documents and even in general
journals when considered of interest.
The
family Pelecinidae belongs to a superfamily Proctotrupoidea is a Hymenoptera
superfamily containing seven extant families: Austroniidae (Australasian),
Heloridae (Worldwide), Pelecinidae (Nearctic and Neotropical), Peradeniidae
(Australasian), Proctorenyxidae (Eastern Oriental and Palaearctic),
Proctotrupidae (Worldwide), Roproniidae (Nearctic and Palaearctic) Vanhorniidae
(Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic). Though others have been recognized in the
past, most of these have been removed to a recently erected superfamily
Diaprioidea. Of the remaining families, only Proctotrupidae contains a
substantial number of species, with over 400 described. The others are small,
often relict groups. The superfamily is Proctotrupoidea endoparasitoids of the
beetle larva (Coleoptera) or less commonly fly larva (Mycetophilidae: Diptera).
The biology of this genus is poorly
understood, despite its present conspicuous size. Species of Pelecinidae have
been reared on larvae of Melolonthinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), especially
in species of Phyllophaga and apparently P.
polyturator. It is a solitary coenobiont endoparasitoid of Phyllophaga anxia (LeConte, 1850).
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