Annotated checklist and illustrated key to braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of economically important fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil

MARINHO, C. F.; COSTA, V. A.; ZUCCHI, R. A.

ZOOTAXA

MAGNOLIA PRESS

Lugar: Auckland; Año: 2018 vol. 4527 p. 21 - 36

1175-5326

The braconid parasitoids offruit-infesting flies have been more intensively studied from the middle tolate 1990s, when taxonomic research was restarted in Brazil. At the same time,efforts toward the biological control of fruit flies intensified, and an exoticspecies, Diachasmimorpha longicaudata,was introduced. In the decade 2010, another exotic species, Fopius arisanus, was introduced, and twonew species of Doryctobracon weredescribed. Currently, 12 species of braconids from the subfamilies Alysiinae(two species) and Opiinae (10 species) are associated with fruit flies ofeconomic importance in Brazil, two of which are introduced species. More thanhalf of the species belong to the genus Doryctobracon,with D. areolatus (Szépligeti) themost widely distributed species in Brazil.