Distribution
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Canary Islands,
Mauritius, Reunion, South Africa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Biology
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Solitary larvo-pupal enparasitoid of Plutella
xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) and Phthorimaea
operculella (Lepidoptera:
Gelechioidea).
Diadegma mollipla is a well known parasitoid of
the diamondback moth (P. xylostella) and the potato tuber moth (P.
operculella). Surprisingly, its host range appears to be restricted
to these two unrelated species. The determination of Diadegma
species is difficult as D. mollipla is morphologically variable (areolet
more or less closed, for example) and numerous sibling Diadegma
species develop also on P. xylostella (Azidah et al. 2000;
Rousse & Villemant, 2012). |
References
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Azidah, A.A., Fitton, M.G. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2000.
Identification of the Diadegma species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae,
Campopleginae) attacking the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella
(Lepidoptera: Plutellidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 90(5),
375–389.
Holmgren, A.E. 1868. Hymenoptera.
Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring
jorden. Zoologi. 6:391-442.
Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012.
Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local
Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species.
Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.
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Credits
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Photographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database
http://coldb.mnhn.fr).
Map
illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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