Cotesia mendicae (Tobias, 1986)

Material examined.

Austria: Lower Austria, Raglitz, ex. Phragmatobia fuliginosa, 06.viii.2006, leg. J. Connell, MS 055 ; Germany: Bavaria: Balderschwang, Leiterberg, 47.489, 10.088, 1600 m, Malaise trap, 21.ix.2017, leg. D. Doczkal, J. Voith, ZSM-HYM-42326-A10 .

Geographical distribution.

PAL.

PAL: Austria*, Germany*, Kazakhstan, Russia (VOR).

Molecular data.

BIN: partially BOLD:AAA7143.

Host information.

Host of (para-)type Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759); also Erebidae: Phragmatobia fuliginosa * (Linnaeus, 1758).

Notes.

Specimens were compared with the information provided in Tobias (1986) and Papp (1990). The specimen from Austria (MS 055) was compared to a paratype and reared from the same host group as the paratype. The COI barcode sequences of the Austrian and German specimens match 100% over a length of 616 bp and the specimens are very similar in morphology. This BIN includes many clearly different species of Cotesia; see discussion below about this “megaBIN” . ASAP clustering resolves the sequences of this species as a single cluster. No host is mentioned in the original description (Tobias 1986) but the paratype seen by Mark Shaw is labelled as from " S. " Diaphora mendica [ Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759)]. Here we present a related host record from Phragmatobia fuliginosa based on a gregarious brood from Austria (MS 055). Our sequences of this species are part of BIN BOLD:AAA71433. This species is illustrated in Fig. 13.