Trichogramma marandobai Brun, Moraes & Soares, 1986

Querino, Ranyse B. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2019, Annotated checklist and illustrated key to the species of Trichogramma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from South America, Zootaxa 4656 (2), pp. 201-231 : 212

Trichogramma marandobai Brun, Moraes & Soares, 1986

Diagnosis. Genital capsule long; dorsal lamina tapering from apex to base, not extending beyond apex of volsellae, dorsal lamina with narrow posterior extension and rounded apex at same level as intervolsellar process; intervolsellar process long and stout, ventral carina not extending beyond middle of genital capsule; flagelliform setae relatively short, tapering at apex ( Vieira et al. 2014, 2015).

Comments. This species is similar to T. demoraesi , from which it differs mostly by the shape of the dorsal lamina. In Brazil, specimens obtained from eggs of Erinnyis ello were misidentified as T. demoraesi , when in fact, those specimens corresponded to T. marandobai (see comments under T. demoraesi ). An integrative taxonomic study proved that the variations in the male genitalia of T. marandobai are intraspecific ( Vieira et al. 2015).

Type repository. Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) (not found) ( Vieira et al., 2015).

Type locality. Felixlândia, MG.

Distribution in South America. Brazil and Peru.

Host. Erinnyis ello (L., 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Sphingidae ).