Ocorrência de Trichogramma acacioi Brun, Moraes & Soares (Hym.: Trichogrammatidae) em ovos de Nipteria panacea Thierry-Mieg (Lep.: Geometridae), um geometrídeo desfolhador do abacateiro

Abstract

Eggs of Nipteria panacea were collected at avocado orchards in differents altitudes in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. No parasitoids emerged from eggs collected at 750 m altitude fields. T. acaioi was obtained from eggs collected in fields both at 850 m and 950 m of altitude, in a rate of parasitism of 15.6 and 41.7% respectively.