Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906)

Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1), pp. 5-220 : 138-139

Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906)

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : MOUTIA 1952: 269 (biol., Mauritius)

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS & MAMET 1954: 5 (host-parasite cat. Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS 1961: 68 (fig. 36: biol., Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : PAULIAN 1961: 297 (not established in Madagascar).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS & MAMET 1962: 9 host-parasite (cat. Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : BRÉNIÈRE 1965a: 347 (not established in Madagascar, hostparasite cat. Madagascar).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : ANONYMUS (det. Fischer ) 1966: 136 (biol., Réunion, Mauritius), 148 (biol., Réunion, Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS 1970: 79 (biol., Mauritius), 80 (tab. 26: biol.).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMBRIDGE (!): ANONYMUS 1971: 11 (biol., Réunion).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : GREATHEAD 1971 not seen.

Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : APPERT 1973: 81 (biol., Mauritius), 86 (biol., Madagascar, Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS 1974: 2 (host-parasite cat. Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS 1978: 9 (host-parasite cat. Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : WILLIAMS 1980: 3 (host-parasite cat. Mauritius).

Apanteles sesamiae CAMERON 1906 : RAJABALEE & GOVENDASAMY 1988: 79 (tab. 1: biol., Mauritius), 80 (tab. 2: biol.).

Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : WALKER 1994: 422 (key), 423 (fig. 8), 424 (fig. 21), 425 (fig. 26), 430 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar without data, Réunion, Mauritius), 431 (tab. 1: biol.), 432 (tab. 1: biol.).

Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : VAN ACHTERBERG & POLASZEK 1996: 63 (key), 65 (tax.,

descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar without data, Réunion without data, Mauritius without data), 111

(figs 328-332). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906: KFIR et al. 2002: 717 (tab. 2: cat.). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : WILLIAMS & GANESHAN 2000: 35 (cat. Mauritius), 43 (biol.,

Mauritius). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : GANESHAN & WILLIAMS 2001: 4 (host-parasite cat.

Mauritius). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : GANESHAN 2001: 27 (host-parasite cat. Mauritius). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : DENOTH, FRID & MYERS 2002: 25 (tab. 2: biol., Mauritius). Cotesia sesamiae (CAMERON 1906) : ROUSSE & GUPTA 2013: 514 (key), 515 (figs 7f, g), 516 (tax.,

Réunion), 517 (fig. 8e), 544 (tab. 1: cat. Réunion).

H o s t s Chilo sacchariphagus (BOJER 1856) ( Lepidoptera : Crambidae ), Sesamia calamistis HAMPSON 1910 ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) – Enicospilus sp. (= sesamiae DELOBEL 1974 ) ( Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae ).

D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Antananarivo – Prov. Toamasina: Toamasina – Réunion: Réunion – Mauritius: Mauritius.

Known from the Afrotropical Region. Cotesia sesamiae has been successfully introduced into Comoros (? established APPERT 1969: 80), Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius for biological control.