Bracon (Glabrobracon) admotus Papp, 2000

Loni, Augusto, Samartsev, Konstantin G., Scaramozzino, Pier Luigi, Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Lucchi, Andrea, 2016, Braconinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) emerged from larvae of Lobesiabotrana (Denis & Schiffermueller) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) feeding on Daphnegnidium L., ZooKeys 587, pp. 125-150 : 128-129

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Bracon (Glabrobracon) admotus Papp, 2000

Bracon admotus Papp, 2000: 237; Yu et al. 2012.

Material examined.

2 males, October 14, 2014; 1 male, October 1, 2015.

This is the first record for Italy and Western Europe and Lobesia botrana represents a new host for this parasitoid. The most important characters for distinguishing of Bracon admotus from the similar species of Bracon variator and Bracon obscurator species groups are: longitudinal diameter of eye 3.3-3.4 times (about 4.4 times in males) longer than malar space (front view); hypoclypeal depression 1.5-1.6 times (1.6-1.7 times in male) as wide as distance from depression to eye; mesosoma short, about 1.4 times (about 1.5 times in males) longer than maximum height; face and frons evenly granulate; vein r issued clearly before middle of pterostigma; first metasomal tergite (if measured from basomedian tubercle) 1.1-1.3 times as long medially as its apical width; furrow of first tergite and suture between second and third tergites crenulate; metasoma usually completely smooth.

Figure 5 reports various morphological details of the species.