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Cotesia glomerata (Linnaeus)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Microgastrinae; Genus: Cotesia)

Ichneumon glomeratus Linnaeus, 1758. Type (missing) should be in NHRS. Type locality: not established.

Ichneumon glomerator Thunberg, 1822.
Microgaster nigriventris Nees, 1834.
Microgaster recondita Nees, 1834.
Microgaster stellatarum Bouché, 1834.
Microgaster crataegi Ratzeburg, 1844.
Microgaster oleracea Taylor, 1860.
Microgaster pieridis Packard, 1881 [homonym of Microgaster pieridis Bouché, 1834].

Microgaster pieridivora Riley, 1882.
Apanteles aporiae Ivanov, 1899.
Glyptapanteles nawaii Ashmead, 1906.
Apanteles aporiae Matsumura, 1908.
Apanteles heterotergis Fahringer, 1936.

Classification


Female SAM-HYM-P020703 (SAMC)

 

Kirstenhof, Cape Town. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum).


MUIZ20-COT231120, SAM-HYM-P095102 to SAM-HYM-P095112

Muizenberg, Cape Town. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum).


Devils Peak, Cape Town. Photographs © Norman Larsen (Iziko South African Museum).


Distribution

Afrotropical region: South Africa (new record van Noort et al. submitted).

Australasian region: Australia (ACT, NSW, QLD), Fiji, Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand; Nearctic region: Canada (BC, NB, ON, QC), United States (CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, IL, IA, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SC, VT, VA, WA, WI); Neotropical region: Barbados, Brazil (SP), Chile, Uruguay;Oriental region: China (GZ, HN, JS, SH, SN, TW, ZJ), India, Pakistan, Vietnam; Palaearctic region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Azores, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, China (BJ, HE, HA, JL, LN, NM, NX, SN, XJ), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (AD, AST, BU, KGD, KAM, KHA, KIR, KDA, KRS, MOS, PRI, ROS, SAK, SPE, SAR, TAM, VGG, VLG, YAR), Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan (Fernandez-Triana, 2020).

Biology

Endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae.

Comments

The species concept used here is based on Shaw et al. (2009) after (Fernandez-Triana, 2020). Information about type(s) status for this species was discussed by Shenefelt (1972) and Fitton (1978). The species distribution in Armenia, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia is based on Belokobylskij et al. (2019).

References

Austin, A.D. & Dangerfield, P.C. 1992. Synopsis of Australian Microgasterinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a key to genera and a description of new taxa. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6:1-76.

Fernandez-Triana J, Shaw MR, Boudreault C, Beaudin M, Broad GR 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920: 1-1089. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.920.39128

Kfir, R., Overholt, W.A., Khan, Z.R. & Polaszek, A. 2002. Biology and management of economically important lepidopteran cereal stem borers in Africa. Annual Review of Entomology, 47, 701–731.

Mason, W.R.M.. 1981. The polyphyletic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. No. 115. 147pp.

Nixon, G.E.J. 1965. A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology series. Supplement 2:1-284.

Risbec, J. 1951. Les Microgasterinae de l'Afrique occidentale francaise. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 13,411–473.

Rousse, P. & Gupta A. 2013. Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3616 (6): 501–547. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1

Shenefelt, R.D. 1972. Braconidae 4. Microgasterinae Apanteles. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 7:429-668.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1973. Braconidae 5. Microgasterinae amd Ichneutinae. Hymenopterum Catalogus, Pars 9:669-812.

van Noort, S., Fernandez-Triana J., Baur, H. 2022. Identity of wasp parasitoids (Hymenoptera) attacking Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) in South Africa. African Entomology 30: e11738 https://doi.org/10.17159/2254-8854/2022/a11738  

Whitfield, J.B., Mardulyn, P., Austin, A.D. & Dowton, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among microgastrine braconid wasp genera based on data from the 16S, COI and 28S genes and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 27, 337–359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00183.x

Yu D.S., van Achterberg K., Horstmann K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort or Norman Larsen (Iziko South African Museum).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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