Updated list of the insect parasitoids (Insecta, Hymenoptera) associated with Lobesiabotrana (Denis & Schiffermueller, 1775) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in Italy. 2. Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Anomaloninae and Campopleginae
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Scaramozzino, Pier Luigi
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Giovanni, Filippo Di
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Loni, Augusto
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Ricciardi, Renato
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Lucchi, Andrea
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Nemeritis ssp. Holmgren, 1860
Nemeritis
sp.:
Del Guercio 1899
: 155-156.
Italian distribution of reared parasitoids.
Tuscany:
Del Guercio 1899
.
Taxonomic notes.
The limited information provided by
Del Guercio (1899)
does not allow designation of the two species of
Nemeritis
to any of the parasitoids associated to EGVM. Though
Leonardi (1925)
included the work of Del Guercio in his bibliography, he did not quote these species, which are not mentioned by any other author.
The species of
Nemeritis
have been divided by
Horstmann (1975)
in four groups: caudatula- and
elegans
-group, which parasitizes
Raphidioptera
, macrocentra-group which parasitizes
Coleoptera
(
Cleridae
,
Malachiidae
) and
Lepidoptera
and lissonotoides-group for which no host records are available (
Horstmann 1994
). Even though most of the species seem to attack concealed hosts under the bark or in bark crevices (
Horstmann 1975
), few species of the macrocentra-group have been recorded on moth species of economic importance, like the Mediterranean flour moth (
Ephestia kuehniella
Zeller, 1879), the European grain moth (
Nemapogon granella
(Linnaeus, 1758)) or the strawberry fruitworm (
Cnephasia longana
(Haworth, 1811)) (
Horstmann 1994
;
Yu et al. 2012
).
In the past, the genus
Nemeritis
included species of other campoplegine genera like
Campoplex
,
Cymodusa
or
Venturia
(
Thomson 1887
,
Schmiedeknecht 1909
). It is possible that the two species cited as
Nemeritis
sp. by
Del Guercio (1899)
are actually
Venturia canescens
(Gravenhorst, 1829). Schmiedeknecht, who identified ichneumonids obtained by
Del Guercio (1899
, page 156), refers to
Venturia canescens
as
Nemeritis canescens
in his fundamental work on European ichneumonids (
Schmiedeknecht 1909
, page 1688). At least the general habitus and wing venation in the picture of the second species (
Del Guercio 1899
, page 156) fit with the general aspect of
V. canescens
.