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Cotesia icipe Fernández-Triana & Fiaboe

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

Cotesia icipe Fernández-Triana & Fiaboe, 2017.

Classification

Biology

Solitary larval endoparasitoid of Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833) and Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (Fiaboe et al 2017).

Distribution

Kenya, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Yemen.

References

Fiaboe KMK, Fernández-Triana JL, Nyamu FW, Agbodzavu KM. 2017. Cotesia icipe sp. n., a new Microgastrinae wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of importance in the biological control of Lepidopteran pests in Africa. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 61: 49-64. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.61.21015

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 © Komi K.M. Fiaboe & Jose Fernández-Triana.

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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