Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) emerges in North America

By E. Talamas, M. V. Herlihy, Christine Dieckhoff, K. Hoelmer, M. Buffington, M. Bon, D. Weber. 2015

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Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) is an Asian egg parasitoid of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stal). It has been under study in U.S. quarantine facilities since 2007 to evaluate its efficacy as a candidate classical biological control agent and its host specificity with regard to the pentatomid fauna na tive to the United States. A survey of resident egg parasitoids conducted in 2014 with sentinel egg masses of H. halys revealed that T. japonicus was already present in the wild in Beltsville, MD. Seven parasitized egg masses were recovered, of which six yielded live T. japonicus adults. All of these were in a wooded habitat, whereas egg masses placed in nearby soybean fields and an abandoned apple orchard showed no T. japonicus parasitism. How T. japonicus came to that site is unknown and presumed accidental.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. Hoelmer
2. E. Talamas
3. M. Buffington
4. C. Rodriguez-Saona
5. E. Conti
6. A. Nielsen
7. Eric Wajnberg
8. R. Sforza

In Insect Science

1. K. Hoelmer
2. E. Talamas
3. M. Buffington
4. C. Rodriguez-Saona
5. E. Conti
6. A. Nielsen
7. Eric Wajnberg
8. R. Sforza

Citations in the corpus

• Two Asian egg parasitoids of Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) emerge in northern Italy: Trissolcus mitsukurii (Ashmead) and Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) (2018, background): “In 2015 T. japonicus, commonly known as the samurai wasp, was detected in the eastern United States (Talamas et al. 2015), followed shortly by discovery of a second, independently established population in the Pacific Northwest (Milnes et al. 2016).”
• Natural enemy impact on eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in organic agroecosystems: A regional assessment (2016, background): “Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead), an Asian parasitoid of H. halys studied in US quarantine facilities since 2007 as a candidate for classical biological control, was recently detected in the field in Maryland (Talamas et al., 2015) and Washington state (Milnes and Beers, 2016).”
• Biological control of invasive stink bugs: review of global state and future prospects (2020, background): “As has occurred in Italy, constraints are probably becoming less relevant in the USA because of the recent finding of adventive populations of T. japonicus in the invaded areas (Talamas et al., 2015).”
• Key to Nearctic species of Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), natural enemies of native and invasive stink bugs (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) (2015, background): “While this paper was in review, a wild population of T. japonicus was discovered in Beltsville, Maryland (Talamas et al 2015), which we were able to rapidly identify with the tools we produced for exactly this purpose.”
• Revision of Palearctic Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) (2017, background): “Recent work in this genus (Talamas et al. 2015a) provided identification tools to separate these species from the Nearctic fauna.”