Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species Author Rousse, Pascal Author Gupta, Ankita text Zootaxa 2013 3616 6 501 547 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1 b0b459e7-66d3-4f39-9c2f-56b6c1e130de 1175-5326 217943 E1F586D6-28D6-445A-986F-5C08839E834E Cotesia flavipes Cameron , 1891 ( Fig. 7 g) Apanteles flavatus Ishida, 1915: 97 ; Apanteles nonagriae Olliff, 1893: 3817 ; Apanteles nonagriae Viereck, 1913: 645 ; Apanteles simplicis Viereck, 1913: 645 Diagnosis. Face distinctly convex in profile view. Mesosoma dorso-ventrally depressed, nearly 2x longer than high. Scutellum smooth. Hind coxa almost entirely polished. Antenna of female stout, 0.7x longer than body. Pedicel bicolor, obviously darker dorsally than ventrally. Hind coxa yellowish. FIGURE 7. Cotesia spp. a: C. plutellae Kurdjumov , female, habitus; b: C. plutellae , propodeum; c: C. plutellae , terga 2–3; d: C. ruficrus Haliday , female, habitus; e: C. ruficrus , terga 2–3; f: C. sesamiae Cameron , female, habitus; g: C. flavipes , female, habitus. Description. cf. Van Achterberg and Polaszek, 1996: 63 for details. Material examined . 1Ƥ Ste Rose / Pas de Bellecombe, alt. 2320m , IV.2008 , leg. IDR; 1Ƥ Reunion , V.1977 , leg. Cirad. Host records. About 30 lepidopteran species in Arctiidae , Brachodidae , Lymantridae , Noctuidae , Pyralidae , and Tortricidae . The host ranges includes the major pests Chilo orichalcociliellus (Strand) , C. partellus (Swinhoe) , C. suppressalis (Walker) , Diatraea saccharalis (Fab.) , Procerata sacchariphaga (Bojer) , and Sesamia calamistis Hampson. Distribution records. East Africa, Madagascar , Mauritius , Indo-Australian area, Far East Asia , inter-tropical America . Reunion (Kfir et al. , 2002). Comments. Introduced for the biocontrol of sugarcane borers into Madagascar (1961), Mauritius and Reunion (dates of releases unknown) (Kfir et al. 2002).