Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel, 1835)

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 : 54

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.5944602

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB53-B307-689E-9E27FE228A36

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel, 1835)
status

 

Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel, 1835) View in CoL

Material examined: MALTA, Buskett, 25. v.2014, 2 ♂♂, from larvae of Xanthia ruticilla (Esper) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. It is a koinobiont larval endoparasitoid with an exceptionally wide recorded host range that extends to fifteen families (in ten superfamilies) of Lepidoptera and includes numerous Noctuidae ( Maeto, 2018) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

SubFamily

Euphorinae

Genus

Meteorus

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