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Agronomía Colombiana ISSN: 0120-9965 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Agronomía Pérez-Benavides, Alba Lucía; Serna, Francisco A first approach to chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) of the entomological museum UNAB with new records for Colombia Agronomía Colombiana, vol. 37, no. 1, 2019, January-April, pp. 18-27 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Agronomía DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/agron.colomb.v37n1.76859 Available in: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=180365069004 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Journal's webpage in redalyc.org Portugal Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative A first approach to chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) of the entomological museum UNAB with new records for Colombia Primera aproximación al conocimiento de las avispas calcídidas (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) del Museo Entomológico UNAB con nuevos reportes para Colombia Alba Lucía Pérez-Benavides1 and Francisco Serna1* ABSTRACT RESUMEN The entomological museum of Universidad Nacional, Faculty El museo entomológico de la Universidad Nacional Agronomía of Agricultural Sciences, Bogota, (UNAB) Colombia, conserves Bogotá (UNAB) en Colombia contiene colecciones de artrópo- several arthropod collections. These collections are considered dos de importancia en sistemas de producción agrícola y silví- of great interest to several agricultural and silvicultural pro- cola, provenientes en su mayoría de las regiones de los Andes duction systems in the eastern Andes and the nearby Amazon orientales y la Amazonia cercana del país. Como aporte al region (Caqueta and Putumayo provinces) of the country. As conocimiento de la diversidad de avispas parasitoides asociadas a contribution to the knowledge of the diversity of parasitoid a agroecosistemas (cacao en agroforestería, principalmente) wasps associated to agroecosystems (cacao in agroforestry de estas áreas geográficas, el presente trabajo presenta una systems, mainly) of these geographical areas, the current primera aproximación al estudio de las avispas Chalcididae research presents a first approach to the study of Chalcididae de este museo. Se organizó el estatus curatorial, los géneros wasps at this museum. The curatorial status was organized, representados fueron identificados, y las ocurrencias geográ- the represented genera identified, and the geographic occur- ficas en extensión y altitud gráficamente representadas. La rences in extension and altitude graphically represented. The Colección Taxonómica Central (CTC) del museo UNAB cuenta Central Taxonomic Collection (CTC) is the main collection con 214 especímenes de la familia, que corresponden a los at UNAB. It contains 214 specimens of the family Chalcididae géneros Brachymeria, Conura, Dirhinus, Ecuada, Haltichella, that correspond to the genera Brachymeria, Conura, Dirhinus, Notaspidium, Parastypiura y Stypiura, con registros para 17 Haltichella, Notaspidium, Stypiura, Ecuada, and Parastypi- departamentos. Los géneros Ecuada y Parastypiura, así como ura, with records from 17 provinces. The genera Ecuada and 11 especies de Conura se registran por primera vez para el país. Parastypiura, as well as 11 species of Conura, are recorded for the country for the first time. Key words: neotropics, taxonomy, geographic occurrence, Palabras clave: neotrópico, taxonomía, ocurrencia geográfica, agroecosystems, parasitoids. agroecosistemas, parasitoides. Introduction Recent studies regarding diversity recognition of Chalci- didae from Colombia were carried out under the “Colom- The family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) con- bia Biodiversa” project (NSF, 2006), cataloging a total of tains 1,469 described species including 90 genera (Noyes, 54 species and nine (9) morphospecies belonging to the 2017). The family is cosmopolitan in distribution, with a following 13 genera: Aspirrhina, Brachymeria, Conura, higher diversity found in Neotropical lowlands (Delvare Dirhinus, Halsteadium, Haltichella, Hockeria, Hontalia, and Boucek, 1992; Delvare, 1995), from where 23 genera Melanosmicra, Notaspidium, Psilochalcis, Stypiura, and and 472 species are known (Noyes, 2017). Colombia has Trigonura. Likewise, several checklists of Chalcididae five registered subfamilies, including Chalcidinae, Dirhini- from the country have been compiled (Arias and Delvare, nae, Epitraninae, Haltichellinae, and Smicromorphinae 2003; Arias, 2004; Delvare and Arias, 2005). Recently, (Boucek, 1988; Delvare, 2004; Noyes, 2017). Noyes (2017) made the Universal Chalcidoidea Database Received for publication: 15 December, 2019. Accepted for publication: 12 April, 2019 Doi: 10.15446/agron.colomb.v37n1.76859 1 Museo Entomológico UNAB, Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía, SIA, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia). * Corresponding author: [email protected] Agronomía Colombiana 37(1), 18-27, 2019 available online, reporting 64 species within nine genera farm; No. Catal., Catalog number; Vda., subdivision; Cgto., from the country, including the genera Ceyxia, Pilismicra district; Qda., stream; Ins. Policía: a political division, and Zavoya, which were not documented previously. similar to Cgto (Martínez and Serna, 2015). The entomological museum UNAB (Universidad Nacio- Results and discussion nal Agronomia Bogota) started in 2001 (Vergara et al., 2008; Serna et al., 2017). This museum preserves several At the UNAB entomological museum, 214 specimens of arthropod collections of interest to agriculture and forestry Chalcididae were found and processed, in total eight genera production systems mainly from the eastern Andes and were found: Brachymeria, Conura, Dirhinus, Ecuada, Hal- nearby Amazon regions from Colombia. It contains ap- tichella, Notaspidium, Parastypiura, and Stypiura (Tab. 1). proximately 180,000 specimens, including 153,000 pinned or point mounted, 10,430 slide-mounted, 18,400 larvae TABLE 1. Chalcididae taxa represented in the CTC of the entomological preserved in ethanol, and 96 Type specimens (Serna et al., museum of UNAB and number of specimens found per taxon. 2017). The main objective of this study was to make a first TAXA Number of specimens at the CTC in UNAB approach to the status of the Chalcididae taxa represented CHALCIDINAE 207 in the UNAB entomological museum, depicting its geo- graphical occurrence. Conura 178 Brachymeria 25 Materials and methods Stypiura 3 Parastypiura 1 Curatorial procedures followed the ones published by HALTICHELLINAE 8 Borror et al. (1989) and the methodology used was the Dirhinus 2 one established at UNAB by Vergara et al. (2008), Mar- Ecuada 1 tínez and Serna (2015), Malagón-Aldana et al. (2017), and Haltichella 3 Pérez-Benavides et al. (2016, 2017). Specimens were point Notaspidium 2 mounted, labeled with information regarding hosts and taxonomic identification, and incorporated into ward Geographic occurrence boxes with a green cardboard label containing the cor- Specimens of Chalcididae in the CTC at UNAB were co- responding taxon name and a catalog number [UNAB llected mostly in the Southwestern and Central regions of #]. Specimen data were digitalized in Excel, including the Colombia. The results confirm that this family is found taxonomy, ecology, and geographical information. Ward in 52 municipalities of the country, in the provinces of boxes containing the specimens were placed into Cornell drawers and compactor shelving cabinets at the Central Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Caldas, Caqueta, Casanare, Taxonomic Collection (CTC). Cesar, Cundinamarca, La Guajira, Meta, Nariño, Putuma- yo, Quindio, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, and Valle del Morphological characters were studied using a NIKON Cauca. The genus Conura (Figs. 1A and B) corresponds to SMZ-1 stereomicroscope. Photographs were taken with a the most widely distributed taxon and contains the largest Canon 5D Mk II camera with EF 100 mm f2.8, incorpo- number of specimens in the Chalcid collection. rating macro lenses, and extensor tubes. For the specimen identification, the taxonomic keys proposed by Burks Furthermore, genera records from each province are as fol- (1960), Halstead (1990), Delvare (1992, 1992a), Boucek lows: Cundinamarca: Conura, Brachymeria, and Dirhinus (1956, 1992), and Navarro-Tavares (2013) were used. Iden- (Fig. 1A-D), Caqueta: Conura, Brachymeria, Notaspidium, tifications were confirmed by reviewing diagnoses and Haltichella, and Stypiura (Fig. 1A-D), Caldas: Ecuada (Fig. descriptions on the abovementioned publications. 1D), and Antioquia: Parastypiura (Fig. 1D). To represent geographical occurrences of the taxa identi- Altitude distribution fied, maps were constructed using QGIS (QGIS Devel- Chalcididae specimens were found in a gradient from 8 opment Team, 2015). Complementary data regarding to 2,150 m a.s.l. (Fig. 2), with an average of 378 m a.s.l., elevations (m: meters above the sea level) were graphically agreeing with the records published by Delvare (1995), who represented. Abbreviations for several data categories re- attributed a higher distribution of this family in Neotropi- corded on labels are as follows: Fca., small farm; Hda., large cal lowland areas. Conura was collected from 8 to 1,949 m Pérez-Benavides and Serna: A first approach to chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) of the entomological collection UNAB with new records for Colombia 19 A B acragae acuta apicalis coccinata