Diagnosis
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Dark species with mesosoma mainly blackish and
metasoma usually reddish, tergite I always black. Ventral margins of
tergite I partially joining, presence of a postero-median area on
mesoscutum, face barely wider than high, clypeus densely punctate
with short hairs, forewing with 1R1 sessile or subsessile (Rousse &
Braet, 2012). |
Biology
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Solitary enparasitoid (koinobiont) of 6
7 lepidopteran species (Arctiidae, Geometridae, Herminiidae, Hesperiidae,
Lasiocampidae, Lycaenidae, Lymantriidae, Lyonetiidae, Noctuidae, Nolidae,
Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Plutellidae, Psychidae, Pyralidae, Tineidae and
Tortricidae). |
Distribution
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Reunion. Widespread in Palearctic and Oriental regions, New
Zealand. Introduced into mainland USA. |
References
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Rousse, P. & Braet,
Y. 2012.
Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini):
key to species and description of six new species. Zootaxa 3449:
26–46.
Shaw,
M.R. and T. Huddleston 1991. Classification and biology of braconid wasps
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Handbooks for the Identification of the British
Insects, Vol. 7, Part 11. Royal Entomological Society of London, London,
England. 126pp.
Shaw,
S.R. 1985. A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomography 3:277-370.
Shenefelt,
R.D. 1969. Braconidae 1. Hybrizoninae, Euphorinae, Cosmophorinae, Neoneurinae,
Macrocentrinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 4:1-176.
Wesmael, C. 1835.
Monographie des Braconides de Belgique. Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Academie
Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres Bruxelles, 9, 1–252.
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Credits
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Phototographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN. Visit
the MNHN database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr |
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