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1 July 2019 Digonogastra kimballi Kirkland as a Parasitoid of Diatraea lineolata (Walker): New Record at Tabasco, México
Azalia Correa-Méndez, Rodolfo Osorio-Osorio, José Isaac Figueroa-de-la-Rosa, Luis Ulises Hernández-Hernández, Efraín de la Cruz-Lázaro, Cesar Márquez-Quiroz
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Abstract

The Neotropical cornstalk borer, Diatraea lineolata (Walker) 1856 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is a pest of economic importance for cultivation of maize, Zea mays L., in Mexico. Digonogastra kimballi Kirkland 1989 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was identified as a gregarious ectoparasitoid of fifth-instar larvae of D. lineolata. Parasitism was low, 0.39 to 0.98% on cornstalk borers during three maize planting seasons. This is the first record of D. kimballi parasitizing D. lineolata larvae in maize at Macuspana, Tabasco, which broadens the distribution of the species in Mexico.

Azalia Correa-Méndez, Rodolfo Osorio-Osorio, José Isaac Figueroa-de-la-Rosa, Luis Ulises Hernández-Hernández, Efraín de la Cruz-Lázaro, and Cesar Márquez-Quiroz "Digonogastra kimballi Kirkland as a Parasitoid of Diatraea lineolata (Walker): New Record at Tabasco, México," Southwestern Entomologist 44(2), 491-495, (1 July 2019). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.044.0214
Published: 1 July 2019
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