Telenomus alecto (Crawford)

Margaría, Cecilia B., Loiácono, Marta S. & Lanteri, Analía A., 2009, New geographic and host records for scelionid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitoids of insect pests in South America, Zootaxa 2314, pp. 41-49 : 42-43

Telenomus alecto (Crawford)

Distribution: Guatemala, Barbados, Puerto Rico, British Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina ( Bin and Johnson 1982; Loiácono and Margaría 2002; Johnson 2004; Cueva Ventura and Condemarín Montealegre 2004).

Material examined: Argentina, Salta, Quebrada de Humahuaca: 8 females and 6 males, reared from eggs of Tolype guentheri (Berg.) ( Lepidoptera : Lasiocampidae ).

Hosts records: Diatraea flavipennella (Box) , D. rufescens Box and D. saccharalis (Fabricius) ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ) ( Bin and Johnson 1982; Loiácono and Margaría 2002). Tolype guentheri is a new host record of a different Lepidoptera family.