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Eggs, nymphs, and adults of both sexes of the triatomine Psammolestes arthuri, together with its scelionid parasite, Telenomus capito, were found in nests of the Plain-fronted Thornbird, Phacellodomus rufifrons inornatus, in El Porvenir on the Colombian oriental plains. This is the 1st record of these insects outside Venezuela. Only the outer eggs of P. arthuri egg masses were parasitized (54% of all the outer eggs and 35% of the total eggs). This pattern is presumably not due to the cementing material between eggs but rather to the eggs' position. The frequency of parasitism of the egg masses on the external, looser portion of the birds' nest was significantly higher than that found for the egg masses closer to the central, denser part of the nest.

Mauricio Barreto, Instructor, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Instructor, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Pablo Barreto, Profesor Titular, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Profesor Titular, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Antonio D' Alessandro, Programa Internacional de Colaboración para la Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad de Tulane-COLCIENCIAS, Centro Internacional de Investigaciones Médicas, CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia. Profesor de Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Tulane, y Profesor Honorario, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Programa Internacional de Colaboración para la Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad de Tulane-COLCIENCIAS, Centro Internacional de Investigaciones Médicas, CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia. Profesor de Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Tulane, y Profesor Honorario, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Mauricio Barreto, Pablo Barreto, & Antonio D’ Alessandro. (1986). Psammolestes arthuri (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and its parasite Telenomus capito (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) in Colombia. Colombia Medica, 17(2), 110–113. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v17i2.6100

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