Choeras dorsalis (Spinola, 1808)

Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4567 (1), pp. 47-60 : 55

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944618

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5C-B308-689E-9B0FFE768DEE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Choeras dorsalis (Spinola, 1808)
status

 

Choeras dorsalis (Spinola, 1808)

Material examined: MALTA, Binġemma, 2–3. vi.2014, 2 ♂♂, emerged from larvae of Nothris verbascella on Verbascum , MZ, DMC; Bingemma, 11. v.2014, 1 ♀, reared from larva of Nothris verbascella Denis & Schiffermüller ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ), MZ, DMC; Fawwara, 28–29. iii.2006, 1 ♂ & 3♀♀, reared from larva of Avaria hyeranana (Milliére) ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ), MZ, DMC; Mosta Valley, 24. vi.2014, 1 ♀, emerged from Lepidoptera larva feeding on Dittrichia viscosa , MZ, DMC [parasitoid identified by Mark Shaw; host identified by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: Choeras dorsalis was previously reported from Malta by Papp (2015) whose identification is here confirmed. It is a koinobiont endoparasitoid recorded from several families of Lepidoptera larvae ( Arthur & Mason, 1986; Yu et al., 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Choeras

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