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
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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).