Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2021, Review of the braconid parasitoid subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, European Journal of Taxonomy 765 (1), pp. 1-143 : 127

Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927

Figs 57–58

Rhaconotus scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927: 34 .

Rhaconotus scirpophagae – Nixon 1939: 123; 1941: 482. — Polaszek et al. 1994: 80. — van Achterberg & Polaszek 1996: 59. — Belokobylskij 2001b: 133. — Yu et al. 2016.

Material examined

YEMEN • 1 ♀; “Yemen (4054), Al Kowd, viii.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’00”; RMNH .

Hosts

Chilo auricilius Dudgeon, 1905 , Сh. partellus (Swinhoe, 1885), Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker, 1863) , S. nivella (Fabricius, 1794) (Crambidae) ; Busseola fusca (Fuller, 1901) (Noctuidae) ; Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888 (Pyralidae) ( Lepidoptera ).

Distribution

Oriental: Bangladesh, China ( Taiwan, introduced), India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Vietnam; Afrotropical: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius (introduced), Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, * Yemen; Neotropical: Trinidad & Tobago (introduced).

Figures

Fig. 57.Rhaconotus (Rh.) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927, ♀ (RMNH). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, dorsal view. C. Head, front view. D. Head and basal segments of antenna, lateral view. E. Hind coxa and femur. F. Hind tibia. G. Mesosoma, dorsal view. H. Mesosoma, lateral view. I. Mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view.

Fig. 58. Rhaconotus (Rh.) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927, ♀ (RMNH). A. Fore wing. B. Hind wing. C. Metasoma, dorsal view. D. Metasoma, lateral view.