Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928)

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P. & Austin, Andrew D., 2020, Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 667 (667), pp. 1-70 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.667

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:59113117-7A31-4969-BA24-4E8E45EBF24A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700536

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EE8792-C40F-3824-D04C-FC4B864D2D95

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928)
status

 

Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928) View in CoL

Fig. 16A View Fig

Apanteles erionotae Wilkinson, 1928: 83 (holotype, ♀, NHMUK).

Cotesia erionotae View in CoL – Austin & Dangerfield 1992: 21 (transfer from Apanteles View in CoL s.l.).

Diagnosis

Cotesia erionotae can be separated from all other species of Cotesia currently described from Australia and Papua New Guinea by the following combination of characters: T3 pale; T1–2 mostly pale; antennae pale.

Material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • 1 ♀; Parit Buntar; Mar. 1922; G.H. Corbett leg.; parasite from Erionota thrax (Linnaeus, 1767) ; “233”; NHMUK 3.c.1037.

Distribution

Malaysia (from type specimens); Papua New Guinea (introduced, see Waterhouse et al. 1998); Thailand, Mauritius (introduced), Guam (introduced), Hawaii (introduced), Saipan (introduced) (Waterhouse & Norris 1989).

Host

Erionota thrax (Hesperiidae) (record from type material), gregarious ( Okolle et al. 2006).

Remarks

We include this species in the key due to its presence in Papua New Guinea, but it is not known to occur in Australia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Cotesia

Loc

Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928)

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P. & Austin, Andrew D. 2020
2020
Loc

Cotesia erionotae

Austin A. D. & Dangerfield P. C. 1992: 21
1992
Loc

Apanteles erionotae

Apanteles erionotae Wilkinson, 1928: 83
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