Dolichogenidea britannica (Wilkinson, 1941)

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 : 56

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.5944630

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5D-B309-689E-9AF1FB3C8F11

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Dolichogenidea britannica (Wilkinson, 1941)
status

 

Dolichogenidea britannica (Wilkinson, 1941)

Material examined: MALTA, Sliema, 14.vii–08. ix.2016, 2 ♂♂ & 9♀♀, from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides with larvae of Gymnoscelis rufifasciata ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ) and Eublemma parva ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae), LF, NMS. GOZO, Ramla l-Ħamra, 28–31. vii.2016, 2 ♂♂, from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides infested with larvae of Gymnoscelis rufifasciata and Eublemma parva , LF, DMC, NMS [parasitoids determined by Mark Shaw; hosts determined by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. This species is a koinobiont endoparasitoid whose usual host is the gelechiid, Ptocheuusa paupella (Zeller) ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ), and both of the above suggested hosts seem highly unlikely. However, additional host records from other Gelechiidae and also Cosmopterigidae are known ( Fernandez-Triana et al., 2014), but no such hosts emerged from the collected plant material.

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