title: A new species of Telenomus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) egg parasitoid of Parides ascanius (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), a threatened species from Brazil.
abstract: Telenomus parides Loiácono et Margaría sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on specimens reared from the eggs of Parides ascanius (Cramer). Parides ascanius is a threatened papilionid, which is endemic to the restingas of the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new Telenomus species is gregarious endoparasitoid and belongs to the Telenomus californicus species complex.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense. CP 100.436, CEP 24.020-971, Niterói, RJ, Brasil.; Email: galmeida@id.uff.br.
authors.forename: Gilberto De Souza Soares
authors.initials: Gde S
authors.lastname: De Almeida
authors.affiliation: División Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.; Email: loiacono@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Marta Susana
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Loiácono
authors.affiliation: División Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina. Cátedra Zoología Agrícola, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 60 y 119. 1900, La Plata, Argentina.; Email: cmargaria@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Cecilia Beatriz
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Margaría
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. CP 68020, CEP 21.941-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.; Email: monteiro@biologia.ufrj.br.
authors.forename: Ricardo Ferreira
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Monteiro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002080:Butterflies / Q000469:parasitology*; D056727:Endangered Species; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010063:Ovum / Q000469:parasitology*; D014863:Wasps / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology