New data regarding Palaearctic Telenomus spp. and descriptions of new taxa in Telenominae (Hymenoptera Scelionidae)

Abstract

The paper deals mostly with Palaearctic Telenomini material collected all over Sicily by the author. Among this material there are some species new to Island or to Italy (Telenomus acrobates Giard., T. angustatus Thomson, T. antennalis Kozlov, T. danubialis (Szelenyi), T. dissolcus Kozl., T. lopicida Silvestri, T. macroceps Szabò, T. regius Kononova, T. tauricus Konon., as well as the new genera Rachelia n. gen., (type species Rachelia robertae n. sp.), and Televiggianus n. gen., (type species Televiggianus rachelinae n. sp.). Furthermore, a new species from Zimbabwe, Telenomus rachelae Mineo, is described; Telenomus paraothus Szabò & Mineo has also been re-defined; Telenomus sp., bred from Liorhyssus hyalinus F. (Rhopalidae), is recognized as a new parasitoid of this bug in the Palaearctic region.