Protapanteles Ashmead

Gupta, Ankita & Fernández-Triana, José L., 2014, Diversity, host association, and cocoon variability of reared Indian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 3800 (1), pp. 1-101 : 12

Genus Protapanteles Ashmead ( Figures 93, 95−100 )

Rearing Data: The genus Protapanteles Ashmead equates to Nixon (1965) ’s popularis group of Apanteles . Nearly 50 specimens were reared from the families Erebidae (Arctiinae) and Noctuidae .

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FIGURES 93 – 100. 93. Solitary cocoon of Protapanteles beneficus (Viereck); 94. Parasitized caterpillar of Amsacta albistriga (Walker) with cocoons of Glyptapanteles creatonoti Viereck; 95. Utetheisa pulchella (L.) caterpillar (host of Protapanteles nr. beneficus (Viereck )); 96. Parasitized undetermined caterpillar with cocoons of Protapanteles sp. 04; 97. Host plant of noctuiid caterpillar with cocoons of Protapanteles sp. 02; 98. Host caterpillar with cocoons of Protapanteles sp. 02; 99. Host caterpillar on Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench with cocoons of Protapanteles sp. 03; 100. Cocoons of Protapanteles sp. 0 3.