Trichogramma gicai Pintureau & Stefanescu, 2000 (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) reared as an egg parasitoid of the Madeiran endemic butterfly, Pararge xiphia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae)

Abstract

Eggs of Pararge xiphia (Fabricius, 1775), a Madeiran endemic satyrid butterfly, and of the widespread P. aegeria (L., 1758), collected in August 2001, were found to be parasitised by a chalcidoid wasp, Trichogramma gicai (Pintureau & Stefanescu, 2000). Th