Eupelmus microzonus Förster, 1860

Delvare, G., Escolà, A. Ribes, Stojanova, A. M., Benoit, L., Lecomte, J. & Askew, R. R., 2019, Exploring insect biodiversity: the parasitic Hymenoptera, chiefly Chalcidoidea, associated with seeds of asphodels (Xanthorrhoeaceae), with the description of nine new species belonging to Eurytomidae and Torymidae, Zootaxa 4597 (1), pp. 1-90 : 69-71

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4597.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F8FD30CA-1B84-4134-91BC-B69736DB0EA8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584445

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED8793-FFBD-3B44-D9F0-A75AE627FE95

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Eupelmus microzonus Förster, 1860
status

 

Eupelmus microzonus Förster, 1860

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Material examined. FRANCE: Bouches-du-Rhône, La Ciotat , 36 m, 43.19861°N 5.63138°E, ex seed of A. cerasiferus , 28.iv.2011 (H. Dumas) (4 ♀, in RAPC) GoogleMaps ; Corse, Aléria, Vaccaja , 20 m, 42.12861°N 9.46556°E, ex seeds of A. ramosus , 22.ix.2001, adults emerged 25.iv/ 15.v.2012, (J. Balajas) (1 ♀, in GDPC) GoogleMaps ; Corse, Linguizetta , 50 m, 42.28194°N 9.51722°E, same asphodel and collecting date and collector (1 ♀, in GDPC) GoogleMaps ; ITALY: Sicilia, Vizzini, Monte Iblei, SE Lago Dirillo , contrado Rubalé , 420 m, 37.10778°N 14.72578°E, ex seeds of A. ramosus , 22.vi.2014, adult emergence v.2015 (G. Delvare) (3 ♀ 1 ♂, in GDPC) GoogleMaps ; same locality, host plant and collector, 350 m, 37.12103°N 14.72166°E (10 ♀ 2♂, in GDPC) GoogleMaps ; SPAIN: Lleida, Aitona , 120 m, 41.46338°N 0.46632°E, ex seeds of A. cerasiferus , 9.vi.2011 (3 ♀, 1 in RAPC) GoogleMaps TURKEY: Aegean Sea Gökçe Ada Island, Şirinköy village , 62 m, 40.12944°N 25.73805°E, ex seed of Asphodelus sp., 8.vi.2011 (A. Stojanova) (2 ♂, in RAPC) GoogleMaps .

Comment. For a complete redescription and characterisation see Gibson & Fusu (2016).

Biology. Most published host records for E. microzonus are of it as a parasitoid in galls of Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) and Tephritidae (Diptera) on herbaceous plants and shrubs ( Askew & Nieves-Aldrey 2000; Askew et al. 2006), and it has been reared from galls of Eurytoma gallephedrae Askew, 1998 (Eurytomidae) . Other host families in Diptera , Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are listed by Noyes (2018). In the present study E. microzonus was uncommon except in Sicilia where it seems to be the commonest Eupelmus species and was reared from seeds of A. ramosus from which the single phytophagous species to emerge was B. insulare .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eupelmidae

Genus

Eupelmus

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