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The occurrence of Trichogramma bruni Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) is described for the first time parasitizing eggs of the velvetbean caterpillar Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in Lapa, Paraná, Brazil. This parasitoid was successfully kept in the laboratory on eggs of the velvetbean caterpillar; previously, this species was mainly associated with forest and fruit trees environments, although snap beans and other annual crops were also recorded as hosting lepidopteran eggs parasitized by T. bruni. This is the sixth Trichogramma species recorded parasitizing eggs of A. gemmatalis on soybeans in Brazil.
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We acknowledge the Agronomic Institute of Paraná (IAPAR) for the assignment of the experimental area, to National Council for Scientific and Technological Development for the scholarship granted to the first author, and to the team of the Laboratory of Integrated Control of Insects at the Federal University of Paraná.
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Dudczak, A.C., Querino, R.B., Foerster, M.R. et al. First Occurrence of Trichogramma bruni Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) Parasitizing Eggs of Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 46, 471–472 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-017-0521-3
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