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Paracentrobia prima (Perkins)
Fla., Tex.; Mexico. Host: Cicadellid eggs in cane.
Jassidoplithora printa Perkins, 1912. Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assoc. Expt. Sta., Div. Ent.
Bui. 10: 18. ♀, ♂.
Paracentrobia subflava (Girault)
D. C, S. C, III, Kans., S. Dak., Idaho, Wash., Calif.; Mexico, Argentina,
Australia. Host: Blissus leucopterus (Say) (?), Balciutha hnpicta (Van Duzee), Circulifer
tenellus (Baker), Deltocephalus minutus Van Duzee, D. sonorus Ball, Empoasca solatia
De Long, Halticus bracteatus (Say). The conspecificity of the North American and
Australian specimens of this species should be reinvestigated, even though the
identifications of both were made by the author of this species. A careful reading of the
paper by McColloch and Yuasa, cited below, shows that the record of subflava from the
eggs of the chinch bug is either incorrect or fortuitous.
Abbella subflava Girault, 1911. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 37: 11. ♀, ♂.
Biology: McColloch and Yuasa, 1915. Ent. News 26: 147-148. — Stahl, 1920. Jour. Agr. Res.
20: 250. -Henderson, 1941. U. S. Dept. Agr., Cir. 593: 1-18. —Henderson, 1955. U. S. Dept.
Agr., Cir. 967: 1-16. —Flock et a/., 1962. Jour. Econ. Ent. 55: 279.
Genus UFENS Girault
Ufens Girault, 1911. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 37: 32.
Type-species: Tridwgramma nigrum Ashmead. Orig. desig.
Ufensia (iirault, 1913. Queensland Mus., Mem. 2: 101.
Type-species: Ufensia pretiosa Girault. Orig. desig. Genus redescribed the following
year with the same type-species in Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 16: 118.
Neocentrobia Blood, 1923. Bristol Nat. Soc, Ann. Rpt. and Proc. 2: 101. Norn. nud.
Neocentrobia Blood and Kryger, 1928. Ent. Meddel. 16: 203. Preocc by Girault, 1912.
Type-species: Neocentrobia hirticomis Blood and Kryger. Orig. desig.
Stephanotkeisa Soyka, 1931. Natuurh. Maandbl. 20: HI.
Type-species: Stephanotkeisa vitoldi Soika. Monotypic
Grantanna Girault, 1939. Ohio Jour. Sci. 39: 324. N. name for Neocentrobia.
Taxonomy: Doutt and Viggiani, 1968. Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc (4) 35: 576.
Ufens beneficus Dozier
Tex.; Mexico, West Indies. Host: Orthopterous eggs, probably of
Tettigoniidae, deposited on leaf surfaces.
Ufens benefic2is Dozier, 1932. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 34: 33. ♀, ♂.
Ufens niger (Ashmead)
Del, Md., w. to Ohio, 111., Idaho, and Wash., s. to Fla., La., Tex., and Calif.;
Mexico, West Indies. Host: Colladonus geminatus (Van Duzee), Cuema costalis (Fab.),
Keonolla confluens (Uhler), Draeculacephala moUipes (Say), Homalodisca sp.,
Saccharosydne saccharivora (Westw.). This may represent a complex of species.
Trichogramma nigrum Ashmead, 1888. Canad. Ent. 20: 107. ♀.
Ufens spiritus Girault
Md., Ga., Fla., La. Host: Homalodisca coagulata (Say), Oncometopia orbona
(Fab.).
Ufens spiritus Girault, 1918. No. Amer. Hym. Trichogrammatidae, Sydney, Austral, p. 6.
Ufens spiritus americanus Girault, 1918. No. Amer. Hym. Trichogrammatidae, Sydney,
Austral., p. 6.
Genus BRACHYUFENS Viggiani
Brachyufens Viggiani, 1968. In Doutt and Viggiani, Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc, (4) 35: 566.
Type-species: Ufens osbonii Dozier. Orig. desig.
Brachyufens osborni (Dozier)
Fla.; West Indies. Host: Diaprepes spp., Pachnaeus litus (Germ.). This may
be a secondary parasite.
Ufens osborni Dozier, 1932. Ent. Soc Wash., Proc. 34: 36. ♀, ♂.
Biology: Tucker, 1936. Barbados Agr. Jour. 5: 9. — Baranowski, 1960. Fla. Ent. 43: 197.
Genus ZAGELLA Girault
Zagella Girault, 1918. No. Amer. Trichogrammatidae, Sydney, Austral., pp. 2, 7.
Type-species: Paracentrobia flavipes Girault. Orig. desig.
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BurksieUa De Santis, 1957. La Plata Univ. Nac, Facultad de Cien. Nat. y Mus., Notas de
Mus. 19: 133.
Type-species: BurksieUa subannulata De Santis. Orig desig.
Taxonomy: Doutt and Viggiani, 1968. Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc. (4) 35: 572.
Zagella flavipes (Girault)
D. C, Ga., Calif. Host: Lestes sp., lepidopterous eggs.
Paracentrobia flavipes Girault, 1905. Ent. News 16: 287. ♀, ♂.
Genus TRICHOGRAMMA Westwood
Trichogramma Westwood, 1833 (June). London, Edinb. and Dublin Phil. Mag. and Jour.
Sci. (3) 2: 444.
Type-species: Trichogramma evanescens Westwood. Monotypic.
CalleptUen Haliday, 1833 (July). Ent. Mag. 1: 340.
Type-species: Calleptiles latipeiinis Haliday. Monotypic.
Pentarthron Packard, 1872 (1871). Rec. Amer. Ent., p. 8.
Type-species: Tricliograttntia .<' miniita Riley. Monotypic.
Trkhogratuma subg. Aprobosca Westwood, 1878. Linn. Soc. London, Trans., Zool., (2) 1:
592.
Type-species: Trichogramma (Aprobosca) erosiconiis Westwood. Monotypic.
Oophthora Aurivillius, 1898 (1897). Ent. Tidskr. 18: 250.
Type-species: Oophthora seviblidis Aurivillius. Monotypic.
Pentarthrum Dalla Torre, 1898. Cat. Hym., v. 5, p. 3. Emend.
XanthoatomuH Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: xi, 360.
Type-species: Xanthoatomua albipes Ashmead. Orig. desig.
Neotrichogramma Girault, 1911. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 37: 38-39.
Type-species: Neotrichogravittia acutiuentre Girault. Orig. desig.
Trichogramma subg. Trichogram }natana Girault, 1932. New lower Hymenoptera from
Australia and India, Brisbane, Austral., p. 1.
Type-species: Trichograttnua singnlaris Girault. Monotypic.
The latest revision of this genus was published in 1960. Although it was a very great improve-
ment over the 1918 revision, it left most workers unsatisfied. At present other revisional works
are in progress, and new papers revising Trichogramma may be published at about the time this
catalog appears. Several undescribed species from North America are at present known to be in
manuscript. Fundamental studies are also currently being made on the genetics, hybridization,
male genitalia, and biologies of the described species of Trichogramma. Consequently, the ar-
rangement of the species in this catalog is provisional.
Due to the fact that much of the older literature on biology cannot now be assigned to in-
dividual species as they are listed in this catalog, a large part of the biological literature on
Trichogramma that was published before 1960 has been omitted. This literature is cited in full
elsewhere; see Peck, 1963. Canad. Ent., Sup. 30: 51-73.
Any species of this genus can be reared in the laboratory or insectary on the eggs of almost
any convenient host, although Salt, 1938. Bui. Ent. Res. 29: 223-246 showed that a few insect
eggs may be physically or chemically unsuitable. The true host specificity for Trichogramma in
nature seems to be to appropriate insect eggs that are deposited in particular environmental
niches rather than simply to the eggs of particular host species. Consequently, host species are
not listed here for the species of Trichogramma, but their ecological requirements, as far as
they are known, are indicated.
Revision: Girault, 1918. N. Amer. Hym. Trichogrammatidae, Sydney, Austral., p. 4.
— Quednau, 1960. Biol. Bund, fur Land- u. Forstwirtsch., Mitt. 100: 11-50.
Taxonomy: Flanders, 1937. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 30: 208-210. —Flanders, 1938. Jour. Econ.
Ent. 31: 456-457. — Ishii, 1941. Kontyu 14: 169-176 (Japanese spp., male genitalia).
—Quednau, 1956. Ber. Hundertjahr Deut. Ent. Ges. Berlin, pp. 87-92. —Quednau, 1956.
Ztschr. Pflantzenkrank. u. Pflantzensch. 63: 333-344. — Telenga, 1959. First Internatl.
Cong. Insect Path. Biol. Control Prague, Trans, pp. 355-360. —Flanders and Quednau,
1960. Entomophaga 5: 285-294. —Quednau, 1960 Biol. Bund fur Land- u. Forstwirtsch.,
Mitt. 100: 11-50. —Tseng, 1965. Acta Ent. Sinica 14: 404 (Chinese spp., male genitalia).