Cotesia cynthiae ( Nixon, 1974 )

Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, European Journal of Taxonomy 571, pp. 1-25 : 13

Cotesia cynthiae ( Nixon, 1974)

Fig. 4

Apanteles cynthiae Nixon, 1974: 499 .

Diagnosis

Antenna 1.1× as long as body, penultimate segment of antenna 2.0× as long as wide; width of face 1.2× as long as height ( Fig. 4A ); POL:MOD:OOL 25: 13:25; width of head in dorsal view 1.9× as long as height ( Fig. 4B ); mesonotum coarsely reticulate-punctate to rugose ( Fig. 4C ); scutellum rugosepunctate; 1–R1 1.5× as long as pterostigma, 3.0 × as long as distance from end of 1–R1 to tip of radial cell; pterostigma 3.2× as long as wide ( Fig. 4D ); metacoxa coarsely rugose; metasoma posteriorly compressed laterally ( Fig. 4F ); first tergite broadening posteriorly, medial length as long as apical width, rugose; second tergite as long as third tergite, rugose ( Fig. 4E ); ovipositor sheath 0.3× as long as metabasitarsus; hypopygium 0.5 × as long as metatibia ( Fig. 4F ); legs reddish brown; body black except third tergite.

Material examined

IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 3 ♀♀; Lali, Taraz ; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 4–18 Mar. 2016, 3–17 Apr. 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0049-0051 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 3–17 Apr. 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/3416 .

Distribution in Iran

Khuzestan (present study). New record for Iran.

General distribution

Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey ( Yu et al. 2016).

Host record

Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815 ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 4. Cotesia cynthiae (Nixon, 1974). A. Head, frontal view., ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/ COT/3416. B. Head, dorsal view. C. Mesosoma, dorsal view. D. Fore wing. E. Metasoma, dorsal view. F. Habitus, lateral view.