Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species
Author
Rousse, Pascal
Author
Villemant, Claire
text
Zootaxa
2012
3278
1
57
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214150
eee2c5c2-96c0-4459-bd7f-4e48a6be87c4
1175-5326
214150
Trathala flavoorbitalis
(
Cameron
, 1907
)
(
Fig. 11
f)
Tarytia flavo-orbitalis
Cameron
1907
: 589;
Cremastus hymeniae
Viereck 1911: 189
;
Cremastus (Tarytia) coreanus kigaonis
Ushida 1932: 196
;
Diaparsis coreanus
Uchida 1928: 285
;
Diaparsis coreanus kondonis
Uchida 1928: 286
Diagnosis
.
Trathala flavoorbitalis
has few obvious specific characters. Its coloration is somewhat variable but it may be separated from most
Trathala
species in the Indian Ocean subregion by metasomal tergites I-II which are invariably black-brown while the remainder of the metasoma is orange.
Description
. Rousse
et al.
(2011).
Host records.
Seventy-eight host records, all
Lepidoptera (Gelechoidea, Noctuoidea, Pyraloidea, Tineoidea and Tortricoidea)
.
Distribution records
.
Reunion
(new record).
Madagascar
(Rousse
et al.
2011). Widespread through Indo- Pacific and Eastern Oriental area. Introduced without establishment into
USA
and
Canada
for biological control purpose.
Material examined
.
Holotype
Ƥ (
BMNH
): Verbatim label data: B.M.
TYPE
HYM
. 3b.1769, Deesa 10.98,
India
Col Nurse
1914-39
.
Other material
(
Reunion
) 1Ƥ St Pierre / Ravine Blanche, alt.
50m
,
IV.2011
, leg. T. Ramage; 2Ƥ St Paul / Tan Rouge, alt.
800m
,
I.2011
, leg. Cirad; 1Ƥ St Pierre / Bassin Martin, alt.
290m
,
XII.2010
, leg. Cirad; 1Ƥ St Pierre / Bassin Plat, alt.
170m
,
IV.2007
, leg. Cirad; 1Ƥ (
MHNSD
2816)
Reunion
, leg. Etienne, locality and date of collection unknown.