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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF53FF61FEFFF4F9" bold="true" box="[151,376,220,246]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Cotesia itororensis</emphasis>
Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield
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elev.). Deposited in the
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, coll. B. Sousa-Lopes, ex larva
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var.
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF03FE60FEC6F5F9" bold="true" box="[199,321,477,502]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Antennae approximately as long as the body (head to apex of metasoma); coxae black, legs mostly honey-yellow, metasoma mostly black except pale in laterotergites; mesoscutum with distinct dense punctures, becoming smooth posteriorly anterior to scutoscutellar sulcus; wings partially pigmented with a few veins dark, but most pale; pterostigma dark greyish brown, with indistinct paler junction with C+SC; propodeum with more or less complete, but anteriorly weak medial longitudinal carina; the first tergite of metasoma rounded towards posterior margin; second tergite of metasoma almost twice as wide posteriorly as anteriorly; tergites of metasoma mostly smooth, weakly sculptured; ovipositor shorter, about one-third the length of the metasoma or hind tibia; solitary habit recorded so far from
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFE13FD67FDEAF6FD" box="[471,621,729,754]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">O. pallidaria</emphasis>
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; cocoon yellow. The above combination of characters is sufficient to separate
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF3FFD43FE14F71A" box="[251,403,766,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">C. itororensis</emphasis>
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from all other recorded species of
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFCE6FD43FCF0F71A" box="[802,887,766,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Cotesia</emphasis>
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for the Neotropical region. A detailed diagnosis one-to-one is provided below to distinguish
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFD41FC9FFC9AF736" box="[645,797,802,825]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">C. itororensis</emphasis>
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from every other species.
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<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF03FCF8FEDEF751" bold="true" box="[199,345,837,862]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Description.</emphasis>
Female (
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). Body color: body mostly black except pale, almost whitish palpi, most of all legs distal to coxae, and laterotergites of metasoma. Antenna color: scape, pedicel and flagellum dark brown/black. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): black. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemora): honey-yellow. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibiae): honey-yellow, with slight darkening dorsally at distal end of metatabiae. Tegulae color: dark brown translucent. Pterostigma color: dark greyish brown, with indistinct paler junction with C+SC. Fore wings color: partially pigmented (a few veins may be dark but most pale). Antenna length/body length: antenna approximately as long as body (head to apex of metasoma). Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorsoventrally. Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.0
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. Fore wing length:
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. Ocular-ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter 1.71.9. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.12.3. Antennal flagellomere 2 length-width: 2.93.1. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.41.6. Length of flagellomere 2/ length of flagellomere 14: 2.22.3. Tarsal claws: simple, within single basal spine-like seta. Metafemur length/ width 3.23.3. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: roughly 0.5. Anteromesoscutum: anteriorly with distinct dense punctures, becoming smooth posteriorly anterior to scutoscutellar sulcus. Mesoscutellar disc: sparsely and finely but distinctly punctured; microsculpture producing satiny reflections. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 810. Propodeum carina: with more or less complete but anteriorly weak medial longitudinal carina. Propodeum background sculpture: mostly very finely rugulose, almost smooth in spots. Mediotergite 1 length/width at widest point: 1.11.3. Mediotergite 1 shape: slightly widening from anterior margin to 0.7 of mediotergite length (widest point), then rounding towards posterior margin. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly smooth and shining with very vague sculpturing ventrally, posterolateral portions with widely scattered punctures. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 2.12.3, almost twice as wide posteriorly as anteriorly. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth and raised centrally, very weakly sculptured otherwise. Hypopygium: evenly sclerotized but folded medially, posteriorly forming a strongly obtuse angle in lateral view. Ovipositor thickness: tapering gradually to tip. Ovipositor sheaths: short, exposed portions less than 1/3 of hind tibia length. Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 1.11.3. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 0.91.0. Pterostigma length/ width 2.02.2. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: just beyond half way point of pterostigma length. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: perpendicular. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in forewing: r weakly arched, junction distinctly but not strongly angled.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB3FFFAFF03F8ACFAAEF325" blockId="2.[151,1437,291,2014]" box="[199,1321,1809,1834]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">
Male (
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). As female, but with darker distal patch on distal portions of hind tibiae and hind tarsi.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB3FFFAFF03F888FC39F341" blockId="2.[151,1437,291,2014]" box="[199,958,1845,1870]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF03F888FE03F341" bold="true" box="[199,388,1845,1870]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Molecular data.</emphasis>
COI barcode deposited in GenBank (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB3FFFBFF03F8E4FB64F5A3" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="440" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB3FFFAFF03F8E4FC51F37D" blockId="2.[151,1437,291,2014]" box="[199,982,1881,1906]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF03F8E4FE8FF37D" bold="true" box="[199,264,1881,1906]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Host:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB3FFFAFECBF8E4FD09F37D" authority="(Schaus, 1897)" authorityName="Schaus" authorityYear="1897" baseAuthorityName="Schaus" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[271,654,1881,1906]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Oospila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidaria">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFECBF8E4FE58F37D" box="[271,479,1881,1906]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Oospila pallidaria</emphasis>
(Schaus, 1897)
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB3FFFAFD58F8E4FCADF37D" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[668,810,1881,1906]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB3FFFAFCF0F8E4FC4DF37D" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[820,970,1881,1906]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Geometridae</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB3FFFBFF03F8C0FB64F5A3" blockId="2.[151,1437,291,2014]" lastBlockId="3.[151,1437,151,680]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="440" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFF03F8C0FE00F399" bold="true" box="[199,391,1917,1942]" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Biology/ecology.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB3FFFAFE51F8C3FDE8F39A" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[405,623,1918,1941]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFE51F8C3FDE8F39A" box="[405,623,1918,1941]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">Cotesia itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a solitary parasitoid wasp that occurs mainly in the wet season (DecemberMarch); however, their host,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB3FFFAFDB8F81FFC94F3B5" baseAuthorityName="Schaus" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[636,787,1953,1978]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Oospila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="439" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidaria">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB3FFFAFDB8F81FFC94F3B5" box="[636,787,1953,1978]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="439">O. pallidaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, occurs throughout the year, mainly in the dry season (MaySeptember). It is possible that caterpillars avoid parasitism occurring at highest abundance in a temporal enemy-free space (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB2FFFBFEAEFF25FDF8F4BF" author="Sousa-Lopes, B. &amp; Bachtold, A. &amp; Del-Claro, K." box="[362,639,151,176]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" pagination="135 - 143" refId="ref6829" refString="Sousa-Lopes, B., Bachtold, A. &amp; Del-Claro, K. (2016) Biology, natural history and temporal fluctuation of the geometrid Oospila pallidaria associated with host plant phenology. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 51 (2), 135 - 143. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01650521.2016.1199140" type="journal article" year="2016">
Sousa-Lopes
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFDC7FF24FDBCF4BF" box="[515,571,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
). Indeed, the rate of parasitism was low, representing 10.5% (22) of the caterpillars sampled during four years. Parasitism occurs between the first and second larval instar of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFAC7FF00FA12F4DA" baseAuthorityName="Schaus" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[1283,1429,188,213]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Oospila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidaria">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFAC7FF00FA12F4DA" box="[1283,1429,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">O. pallidaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Parasitized caterpillars have swollen bodies in the posterior half (
<figureCitation id="1304AFAAFFB2FFFBFC66FF62FC7EF4F7" box="[930,1017,223,248]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1892,1914]" captionTargetBox="[168,1417,1146,1850]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[150,1436,1129,1870]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. (a) Parasitized larva of Oospila pallidaria (Geometridae) in the fourth instar, with a swollen body in the posterior half, (b) parasitized larva in the abaxial side of the leaf, and (c) dead larva and yellow cocoon of Cotesia itororensis (Braconidae)" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618445/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Fig. 3a</figureCitation>
), mainly in the fourth instar, when parasitoid larvae are completely developed. At this time,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFCD1FEB8FC20F512" baseAuthorityName="Schaus" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[789,935,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Oospila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidaria">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFCD1FEB8FC20F512" box="[789,935,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">O. pallidaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
moves to the adaxial side of leaves (
<figureCitation id="1304AFAAFFB2FFFBFA87FEB9FA13F512" box="[1347,1428,260,285]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1892,1914]" captionTargetBox="[168,1417,1146,1850]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[150,1436,1129,1870]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. (a) Parasitized larva of Oospila pallidaria (Geometridae) in the fourth instar, with a swollen body in the posterior half, (b) parasitized larva in the abaxial side of the leaf, and (c) dead larva and yellow cocoon of Cotesia itororensis (Braconidae)" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618445/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Fig. 3b</figureCitation>
) and then
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFF39FE95FE12F54F" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[253,405,296,320]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF39FE95FE12F54F" box="[253,405,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
leaves them near the fifth abdominal segment (
<figureCitation id="1304AFAAFFB2FFFBFC6CFE9AFC7EF54F" box="[936,1017,295,320]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1892,1914]" captionTargetBox="[168,1417,1146,1850]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[150,1436,1129,1870]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. (a) Parasitized larva of Oospila pallidaria (Geometridae) in the fourth instar, with a swollen body in the posterior half, (b) parasitized larva in the abaxial side of the leaf, and (c) dead larva and yellow cocoon of Cotesia itororensis (Braconidae)" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618445/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Fig. 3c</figureCitation>
), builds a yellow cocoon and pupates for three days.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFE85FEF0FD92F56B" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[321,533,333,356]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFE85FEF0FD92F56B" box="[321,533,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Cotesia itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
probably changes host behavior because moving to the adaxial side of leaves is an uncommon behavior for healthy caterpillars (BSL, pers. obs.). It is possible this behavior decreases vulnerability to desiccation and/or enemies in open areas where host plants and caterpillars are found by wasps.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB2FFFBFF03FE0AFC39F5DF" box="[199,958,439,464]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB2FFFBFF03FE0AFC39F5DF" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,680]" box="[199,958,439,464]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF03FE0AFEE7F5DF" bold="true" box="[199,352,439,464]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known so far from Uberlândia,
<collectingRegion id="49FB7DCDFFB2FFFBFD0AFE0AFCE0F5DF" box="[718,871,439,464]" country="Brazil" name="Minas Gerais" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Minas Gerais</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB2FFFBFCB6FE0AFC3DF5DF" box="[882,954,439,464]" name="Brazil" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Brazil</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB2FFFBFF03FE61FB51F632" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB2FFFBFF03FE61FB51F632" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,680]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF03FE61FEC9F5FA" bold="true" box="[199,334,476,501]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet (
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFD83FE60FD39F5FB" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[583,702,477,500]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFD83FE60FD39F5FB" box="[583,702,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) is a reference, from the Tupi-Guarani
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFB45FE60FB5FF5FB" box="[1153,1240,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">i -tororó</emphasis>
=
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFB3DFE60FA95F5FB" box="[1273,1298,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">yy</emphasis>
(water) and
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF53FDBCFF59F617" box="[151,222,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">tororõ</emphasis>
(spout), water spout, also meaning noisy river and small waterfall, and
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFBDEFDBCFBE8F617" box="[1050,1135,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">ensis =</emphasis>
origin, in reference to the Clube Caça e Pesca Itororó de Uberlândia,
<collectingRegion id="49FB7DCDFFB2FFFBFDBEFD99FC93F632" box="[634,788,548,573]" country="Brazil" name="Minas Gerais" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Minas Gerais</collectingRegion>
, where this braconid species was found.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB2FFFBFF03FDFAFE92F6A8" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB2FFFBFF03FDFAFE92F6A8" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,680]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF03FDFAFE2DF66F" bold="true" box="[199,426,583,608]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Detailed diagnosis.</emphasis>
In order to facilitate future work on the group, we detail below how each of the other twenty-one species of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFE61FDD0FE7CF68B" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1891" box="[421,507,621,644]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFE61FDD0FE7CF68B" box="[421,507,621,644]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Cotesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
previously recorded from the Neotropical region individually differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFA46FDD0FE89F6A7" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFA46FDD0FE89F6A7" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<caption id="DF40E3A7FFB2FFFBFF53F8C1FD29F3E1" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618443/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" startId="3.[151,250,1916,1938]" targetBox="[177,1416,753,1885]" targetPageId="3">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB2FFFBFF53F8C1FD29F3E1" blockId="3.[151,1436,1916,2030]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFF53F8C1FE95F39E" bold="true" box="[151,274,1916,1938]" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
(a) Lateral habitus of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFE35F8C0FCBDF39D" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[497,826,1916,1938]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFE35F8C0FD37F39D" box="[497,688,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">Cotesia itororensis</emphasis>
(Braconidae)
</taxonomicName>
female, (b) Lateral habitus of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFBAFF8C0FB73F39D" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1131,1268,1917,1938]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFBAFF8C0FB73F39D" box="[1131,1268,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
male, (c) frontal view of head of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFE8FF826FE5FF3BE" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[331,472,1947,1969]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFE8FF826FE5FF3BE" box="[331,472,1947,1969]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
female, (d) dorsal view of head of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFC9FF826FC6FF3BE" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[859,1000,1947,1969]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFC9FF826FC6FF3BE" box="[859,1000,1947,1969]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
female, (e) mesosoma and tergites of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFA40F826FE84F3C0" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFA40F826FE84F3C0" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
female, (f) wings of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFE2EF807FDF0F3C0" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[490,631,1978,1999]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFE2EF807FDF0F3C0" box="[490,631,1978,1999]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
female, and (g) lateral view of posterior end of metasoma of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB2FFFBFACBF807FA1BF3C0" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1295,1436,1978,1999]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="440" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB2FFFBFACBF807FA1BF3C0" box="[1295,1436,1978,1999]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="440">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
female, showing hypopygium and ovipositor sheaths
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB5FFFCFF03FF25FB35F636" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FF25FE84F530" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FF25FDB6F4BF" ID-CoL="YX4P" authority="(Muesebeck 1958)" authorityName="Muesebeck" authorityYear="1958" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[199,561,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alius">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FF25FEDEF4BF" box="[199,345,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia alius</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFEACFF2AFDAEF4BF" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[360,553,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has the metasoma bright yellow on sides and underneath on basal half, and its metasoma is also rather stout, almost as broad as mesosoma (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFCBBFF06FBCEF4DB" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[895,1097,187,212]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB08FF01FAEEF4DB" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1228,1385,188,212]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB08FF01FAEEF4DB" box="[1228,1385,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has metasoma mostly black except pale in metasomal laterotergites, and narrow in comparison to mesosoma. Also,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFA46FF5DFF4AF513" ID-CoL="YX4P" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alius">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFA46FF5DFF4AF513" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. alius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from a different family of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD0DFEBEFB86F513" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[713,1025,259,284]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera (Nymphalidae)</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFBE0FEBEFBECF513" box="[1060,1131,259,284]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFBB2FEB9FB2EF514" box="[1142,1193,260,283]" name="Peru" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Peru</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFB1BFEBEFAD5F513" box="[1247,1362,259,284]" name="Venezuela" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFAA4FEBEFF7FF530" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFA4CFEB9FF33F530" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FEF6FB15F5FD" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FEF6FDFEF56C" ID-CoL="YX4T" authority="(Lepeletier 1825)" authorityName="Lepeletier" authorityYear="1825" baseAuthorityName="Lepeletier" baseAuthorityYear="1825" box="[199,633,330,355]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="americana">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FEF6FE25F56C" box="[199,418,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia americana</emphasis>
(Lepeletier 1825)
</taxonomicName>
has antennae pale testaceous, tinged with fuscous above, the base beneath yellowish, and metasoma entirely orange-yellow (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFCE6FED2FC47F588" author="Cresson, E. T." box="[802,960,366,391]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="1 - 200" refId="ref5197" refString="Cresson, E. T. (1865) On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 4, 1 - 200." type="journal article" year="1865">Cresson 1865</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBF2FED2FB49F589" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1078,1230,367,390]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBF2FED2FB49F589" box="[1078,1230,367,390]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has antennae dark brown/black, and metasoma black except for pale in laterotergites, mostly in segments 1 and 2.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB03FE2EFA1BF5A5" ID-CoL="YX4T" baseAuthorityName="Lepeletier" baseAuthorityYear="1825" box="[1223,1436,403,426]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="americana">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB03FE2EFA1BF5A5" box="[1223,1436,403,426]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is recorded to parasitize different families of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD04FE08FCC0F5C1" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[704,839,437,462]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC98FE08FC4FF5C1" ID-CoL="FG2" box="[860,968,437,462]" class="Insecta" family="Pyralidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pyralidae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBC9FE08FB08F5C1" ID-CoL="GHS" box="[1037,1167,437,462]" class="Insecta" family="Sphingidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphingidae</taxonomicName>
), and occurs in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFA9EFE08FA1FF5C1" box="[1370,1432,437,462]" name="Cuba" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cuba</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFF53FE64FE05F5FD" box="[151,386,473,498]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Dominican Republic</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE4AFE67FE6FF5FD" box="[398,488,474,498]" name="Guyana" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Guyana</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE36FE64FDAAF5FD" box="[498,557,473,498]" name="Haiti" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Haiti</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFDFCFE64FD30F5FD" box="[568,695,473,498]" name="Martinique" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Martinique</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFD07FE64FC9FF5FD" box="[707,792,473,498]" name="Mexico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Mexico</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFC8BFE67FC53F5FD" box="[847,980,473,498]" name="Puerto Rico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Puerto Rico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFC26FE67FB01F5FD" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[994,1158,473,498]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBCEFE67FBC5F5FD" box="[1034,1090,473,498]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FE43FB35F636" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FE43FDA3F619" ID-CoL="YX5M" authority="(Brethes 1920)" authorityName="Brethes" authorityYear="1920" baseAuthorityName="Brethes" baseAuthorityYear="1920" box="[199,548,509,534]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ayerza">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FE43FEF6F61A" box="[199,369,510,533]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia ayerza</emphasis>
(Brethes 1920)
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from different species within the family
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB1DFE40FAB2F619" ID-CoL="625MK" box="[1241,1333,509,534]" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
and it is known so far only from
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE62FD9CFD91F635" box="[422,534,545,570]" name="Argentina" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Argentina</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFDE0FD9CFD40F635" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[548,711,545,570]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFD88FD9FFD03F635" box="[588,644,545,570]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
), which distinguishes it from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBD7FD9FFB2CF636" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1043,1195,546,569]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBD7FD9FFB2CF636" box="[1043,1195,546,569]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB5FFFCFF03FDF8FB34F6C7" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" type="description">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FDF8FB34F6C7" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FDF8FE2AF652" baseAuthorityName="Brèthes" baseAuthorityYear="1916" box="[199,429,580,605]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bonariensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FDF8FE2AF652" box="[199,429,580,605]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia bonariensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Brѐthes 1916) has the mediotergite 2 a transverse rectangle shape, rough, slightly elevated in its middle longitudinally (Brѐthes 1916); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFCB6FDD4FB89F68F" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[882,1038,617,640]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFCB6FDD4FB89F68F" box="[882,1038,617,640]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the same segment in a more triangular shape, smooth and raised centrally, very weakly sculptured otherwise.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB8CFD30FAABF6AA" baseAuthorityName="Brèthes" baseAuthorityYear="1916" box="[1096,1324,652,677]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bonariensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB8CFD30FAABF6AA" box="[1096,1324,652,677]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia bonariensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from an unidentified lepidopteran in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFD27FD12FCD5F6C7" box="[739,850,687,712]" name="Argentina" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Argentina</collectingCountry>
(Brѐthes 1916,
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFBC1FD0CFB20F6C7" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1029,1191,687,712]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBEFFD0CFBE4F6C7" box="[1067,1123,687,712]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C325E0A4FFB5FFFEFF03FD69FBB0F68A" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="443" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FD69FCAAF758" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FD69FDBFF6E3" ID-CoL="YX6S" authority="(Say 1836)" authorityName="Say" authorityYear="1836" baseAuthorityName="Say" baseAuthorityYear="1836" box="[199,568,723,748]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="congregata">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FD69FE2EF6E3" box="[199,425,724,748]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia congregata</emphasis>
(Say 1836)
</taxonomicName>
has a gregarious habit and cocoon whitish (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFB92FD6EFB78F6E3" author="Gilmore, J. U." box="[1110,1279,723,748]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="712 - 715" refId="ref5442" refString="Gilmore, J. U. (1938) Notes on Apanteles congregatus (Say) as a parasite of tobacco hornworms. Journal of Economic Entomology, 31, 712 - 715. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jee / 31.6.712" type="journal article" year="1938">Gilmore 1938</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFA46FD69FE89F700" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFA46FD69FE89F700" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is recorded so far with solitary habit and cocoon yellowish.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC76FD45FB0AF700" ID-CoL="YX6S" baseAuthorityName="Say" baseAuthorityYear="1836" box="[946,1165,760,783]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="congregata">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC76FD45FB0AF700" box="[946,1165,760,783]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia congregata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from different families of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFE4AFCA6FD92F73B" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[398,533,795,820]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFDEDFCA6FD50F73B" ID-CoL="BSP" authorityName="Harris" authorityYear="1841" box="[553,727,795,820]" class="Insecta" family="Lasiocampidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Lasiocampidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD2CFCA6FCD9F73B" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[744,862,795,820]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFCABFCA6FC5EF73B" ID-CoL="FG2" box="[879,985,795,820]" class="Insecta" family="Pyralidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pyralidae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBDEFCA6FB1DF73B" ID-CoL="GHS" box="[1050,1178,795,820]" class="Insecta" family="Sphingidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphingidae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFB14FCA6FA90F73B" box="[1232,1303,795,820]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFAECFCA6FA1FF73B" box="[1320,1432,795,820]" name="Honduras" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Honduras</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFF53FC83FF73F758" box="[151,244,830,855]" name="Jamaica" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Jamaica</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFF3BFC83FEF2F758" box="[255,373,830,855]" name="Nicaragua" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Nicaragua</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE44FCFDFE34F758" box="[384,435,832,855]" name="Peru" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Peru</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE2EFCFDFDE8F758" box="[490,623,830,855]" name="Puerto Rico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Puerto Rico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFDB9FC82FCA6F758" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[637,801,830,855]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFD61FCFDFD5AF758" box="[677,733,830,855]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FCDEFAB2F7E9" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FCDEFDC9F774" ID-CoL="YX7Q" authority="(Viereck 1912)" authorityName="Viereck" authorityYear="1912" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1912" box="[199,590,866,891]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="electrae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FCDEFE0FF774" box="[199,392,866,891]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia electrae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFE66FCDFFDC1F774" author="Viereck, H. L." box="[418,582,866,891]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="139 - 153" refId="ref6955" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1912) Description of five new genera and twenty six new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 42, 139 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1888.139" type="journal article" year="1912">Viereck 1912</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has hind femora blackish-brown, pterostigma black, and metasoma compressed and black (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFE5AFC3BFDBDF790" author="Viereck, H. L." box="[414,570,902,927]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="139 - 153" refId="ref6955" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1912) Description of five new genera and twenty six new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 42, 139 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1888.139" type="journal article" year="1912">Viereck 1912</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD76FC3AFCCCF791" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[690,843,903,926]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFD76FC3AFCCCF791" box="[690,843,903,926]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the hind femora yellow-honey, pterostigma dark greyish brown, with indistinct paler junction with C+SC, and metasoma compressed, but blackish with laterotergites pale.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFEA8FC72FDA4F7E9" ID-CoL="YX7Q" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1912" box="[364,547,973,998]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="electrae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFEA8FC72FDA4F7E9" box="[364,547,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia electrae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFCBAFC70FC7AF7E9" ID-CoL="FYX" box="[894,1021,973,998]" class="Insecta" family="Saturniidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Saturniidae</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFBE6FC70FBF0F7E9" box="[1058,1143,973,998]" name="Mexico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Mexico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFB41FC73FAAEF7E9" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1157,1321,973,998]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB69FC72FB61F7E9" box="[1197,1254,973,998]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FC4FFE84F096" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FC4FFDC2F005" ID-CoL="YX7T" authority="(Viereck 1913)" authorityName="Viereck" authorityYear="1913" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[199,581,1009,1034]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="empretiae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FC4FFE13F006" box="[199,404,1010,1033]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia empretiae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFE67FC4CFDBAF005" author="Viereck, H. L." box="[419,573,1009,1034]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="555 - 568" refId="ref7003" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1913) Description of ten new genera and twenty-three new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 555 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1968.555" type="journal article" year="1913">Viereck 1913</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has legs and tegulae mostly stramineous, including the fore and mid coxae rather reddish, and first and second metasomal segments rugulose (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFC48FBA8FBAEF021" author="Viereck, H. L." box="[908,1065,1045,1070]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="555 - 568" refId="ref7003" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1913) Description of ten new genera and twenty-three new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 555 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1968.555" type="journal article" year="1913">Viereck 1913</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB65FBABFABDF022" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1185,1338,1046,1069]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB65FBABFABDF022" box="[1185,1338,1046,1069]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has legs mostly yellow-honey, tegulae dark brown translucent, and first and second metasomal segments mostly smooth.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF53FBE0FEE5F07A" ID-CoL="YX7T" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[151,354,1117,1141]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="empretiae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF53FBE0FEE5F07A" box="[151,354,1117,1141]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia empretiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from a different family of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC64FBE1FB55F07A" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[928,1234,1116,1141]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera (Limacodidae)</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFB31FBE1FAD5F07A" box="[1269,1362,1116,1141]" name="Ecuador" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Ecuador</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFAA4FBE0FF7FF096" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFA4CFBE3FF33F096" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FB18FB3EF19C" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FB18FDA8F0B2" ID-CoL="YX8F" authority="Cameron 1981" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1981" box="[199,559,1188,1213]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FB18FEFBF0B2" box="[199,380,1188,1213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia flavipes</emphasis>
Cameron 1981
</taxonomicName>
, as well as other species from the
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC7AFB19FB92F0B2" ID-CoL="YX8F" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1981" box="[958,1045,1188,1213]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC7AFB19FB92F0B2" box="[958,1045,1188,1213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species group, has short antennae (much shorter than body length, usually not surpassing the length of head and mesosoma) (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFB7BFB7AFA10F0EF" author="Fiaboe, K. K. M. &amp; Fernandez-Triana, J. L. &amp; Nyamu, F. W. &amp; Agbodzavu, K. M." box="[1215,1431,1223,1248]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="49 - 64" refId="ref5359" refString="Fiaboe, K. K. M., Fernandez-Triana, J. L., Nyamu, F. W. &amp; Agbodzavu, K. M. (2017) Cotesia icipe sp. n., a new Microgastrinae wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of importance in the biological control of Lepidopteran pests in Africa. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 61, 49 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 61.21015" type="journal article" year="2017">
Fiaboe
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFAD3FB74FAD5F0EF" box="[1303,1362,1223,1248]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2017
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFF53FB56FEE1F10B" author="Kaiser, L. &amp; Fernandez-Triana, J. &amp; Capdevielle-Dulac, C. &amp; Chantre, C. &amp; Bodet, M. &amp; Kaoula, F. &amp; Benoist, R. &amp; Calatayud, P. A. &amp; Dupas, S. &amp; Herniou, E. A. &amp; Jennette, R. &amp; Obonyo, J. &amp; Silvain, J. F. &amp; Ru, B. L." box="[151,358,1259,1284]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="105 - 136" refId="ref5754" refString="Kaiser, L., Fernandez-Triana, J., Capdevielle-Dulac, C., Chantre, C., Bodet, M., Kaoula, F., Benoist, R., Calatayud, P. A., Dupas, S., Herniou, E. A., Jennette, R., Obonyo, J., Silvain, J. F. &amp; Ru, B. L. (2017) Systematics and biology of Cotesia typhae sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), a potential biological control agent against the noctuid Mediterranean corn borer, Sesamia nonagrioides. Zookeys, 682, 105 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 682.13016" type="journal article" year="2017">
Kaiser
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF2CFB50FEA5F10B" box="[232,290,1259,1284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2017
</bibRefCitation>
); whereas the antennae of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD52FB51FCA8F10B" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[662,815,1260,1284]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFD52FB51FCA8F10B" box="[662,815,1260,1284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is approximately as long as the body (head to apex of metasoma). Species of the
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFE00FAB2FD9CF127" ID-CoL="YX8F" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1981" box="[452,539,1295,1320]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFE00FAB2FD9CF127" box="[452,539,1295,1320]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group also show a much more highly elongate and flattened body shape than
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFA46FAADFE89F144" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFA46FAADFE89F144" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The metasoma of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFE27FA89FDDDF143" ID-CoL="YX8F" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1981" box="[483,602,1331,1356]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFE27FA89FDDDF143" box="[483,602,1331,1356]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is much lighter in color than
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC5BFA89FBB1F144" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[927,1078,1332,1355]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC5BFA89FBB1F144" box="[927,1078,1332,1355]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Beyond,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB6CFA89FA98F143" ID-CoL="YX8F" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1981" box="[1192,1311,1331,1356]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB6CFA89FA98F143" box="[1192,1311,1331,1356]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
parasitizes different hosts within the families of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFDF1FAEBFD38F160" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[565,703,1366,1391]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD0FFAEBFCCEF160" ID-CoL="8MQ" box="[715,841,1366,1391]" class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Crambidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC90FAEBFC3DF160" ID-CoL="92529" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[852,954,1366,1391]" class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Erebidae</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC30FAEBFBEDF160" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[1012,1130,1366,1391]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
, in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFB56FAEBFB78F160" box="[1170,1279,1366,1391]" name="Barbados" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Barbados</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFACEFAEBFAD6F160" box="[1290,1361,1366,1391]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFA98FAEAFF4AF19C" name="Costa Rica" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Costa Rica</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFF1CFAC7FEE5F19C" box="[216,354,1402,1427]" name="Guadeloupe" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Guadeloupe</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFEAAFAC7FE4CF19C" box="[366,459,1402,1427]" name="Jamaica" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Jamaica</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE12FAC7FDA9F19C" box="[470,558,1402,1427]" name="Mexico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Mexico</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFDFDFAC6FDE8F19D" box="[569,623,1403,1426]" name="Peru" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Peru</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFDBEFAC7FCD5F19C" box="[634,850,1402,1427]" name="Trinidad and Tobago" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Trinidad &amp; Tobago</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFC4CFAC7FC7CF19C" box="[904,1019,1402,1427]" name="Venezuela" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFBCDFAC6FB2AF19C" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1033,1197,1402,1427]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBF5FAC1FBEEF19C" box="[1073,1129,1402,1427]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03FA22FCA0F266" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03FA22FDD0F1B8" ID-CoL="YX8V" authority="(Linnaeus 1758)" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[199,599,1438,1463]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="glomerata">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03FA22FE10F1B8" box="[199,407,1438,1463]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia glomerata</emphasis>
(Linnaeus 1758)
</taxonomicName>
has the plate of the first abdominal segment about two and one-half times as long as wide (=rectangular shape) (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFD9EFA7FFC8BF1D4" author="Ashmead, W. H." box="[602,780,1474,1499]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="169 - 201" refId="ref4938" refString="Ashmead, W. H. (1906) Descriptions of new Hymenoptera from Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30, 169 - 201. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.30 - 1448.169" type="journal article" year="1906">Ashmead 1906</bibRefCitation>
), whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC48FA7EFBA0F1D5" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[908,1063,1475,1498]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC48FA7EFBA0F1D5" box="[908,1063,1475,1498]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has this plate with the anterior margin slightly widening and rounded towards posterior margin.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFCB0FA5BFBC3F1F1" ID-CoL="YX8V" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[884,1092,1509,1534]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="glomerata">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFCB0FA5BFBC3F1F1" box="[884,1092,1509,1534]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia glomerata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been reported parasitizing several species of lepidopterans within the families,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD2EF9B4FCFDF22D" ID-CoL="622GK" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[746,890,1545,1570]" class="Insecta" family="Bombycidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Bombycidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC43F9B4FB8CF22D" ID-CoL="9G7" box="[903,1035,1545,1570]" class="Insecta" family="Drepanidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Drepanidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBD3F9B4FB2DF22D" ID-CoL="6247J" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[1047,1194,1545,1570]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Geometridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB73F9B4FA91F22D" ID-CoL="625MK" box="[1207,1302,1545,1570]" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFAE6F9B4FA1FF22D" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[1314,1432,1545,1570]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF53F990FEB6F249" ID-CoL="DGC" box="[151,305,1581,1606]" class="Insecta" family="Nymphalidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Nymphalidae</taxonomicName>
, among others, and the coleopteran,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFD0FF990FBD8F249" authority="(Herbst 1783)" authorityName="Herbst" authorityYear="1783" baseAuthorityName="Herbst" baseAuthorityYear="1783" box="[715,1119,1581,1606]" class="Insecta" family="Dermestidae" genus="Trogoderma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="glabrum">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFD0FF990FC3DF249" box="[715,954,1581,1606]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Trogoderma glabrum</emphasis>
(Herbst 1783)
</taxonomicName>
, in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFB4CF990FB75F249" box="[1160,1266,1581,1606]" name="Barbados" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Barbados</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFAECF990FAEBF249" box="[1320,1388,1581,1606]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFABFF993FE97F265" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF53F9EFFF48F265" box="[151,207,1617,1642]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
) (this last record is almost certainly erroneous).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03F9C8FE01F313" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03F9C8FDD6F282" ID-CoL="6B8JQ" authority="(Muesebeck 1958)" authorityName="Muesebeck" authorityYear="1958" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[199,593,1652,1677]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraussi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03F9C8FEF1F282" box="[199,374,1652,1677]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia kraussi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFE41F9C9FDCFF282" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[389,584,1652,1677]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has the disc of scutellum large, convex, sculptured like mesoscutum, first metasomal tergite entirely finely rugulose, and hind femora black (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFC57F925FBDEF2BE" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[915,1113,1688,1713]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB10F924FAEAF2BF" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1236,1389,1689,1712]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB10F924FAEAF2BF" box="[1236,1389,1689,1712]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has disc of scutellum sparsely and finely, although distinctly punctured, first metasomal tergite mostly smooth, and femora honey-yellow.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFE5EF95DFDCDF2F7" ID-CoL="6B8JQ" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[410,586,1759,1784]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kraussi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFE5EF95DFDCDF2F7" box="[410,586,1759,1784]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia kraussi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFC78F962FB7EF2F7" authority="Geyer" authorityName="Geyer" box="[956,1273,1759,1784]" class="Insecta" family="Nymphalidae" genus="Morpheis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ehrenbergi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC78F962FB2CF2F7" box="[956,1195,1759,1784]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Morpheis ehrenbergi</emphasis>
Geyer
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFACFF962FA1EF2F7" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[1291,1433,1759,1784]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF53F8BEFF79F313" ID-CoL="8M4" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[151,254,1795,1820]" class="Insecta" family="Cossidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Cossidae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFEEDF8BEFE05F313" box="[297,386,1795,1820]" name="Mexico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Mexico</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03F895FA96F3A4" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03F895FDFEF34F" ID-CoL="6B8JH" authority="(Cresson 1865)" authorityName="Cresson" authorityYear="1865" baseAuthorityName="Cresson" baseAuthorityYear="1865" box="[199,633,1831,1856]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marginiventris">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03F895FE40F330" box="[199,455,1832,1855]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia marginiventris</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFE11F895FDF6F34F" author="Cresson, E. T." box="[469,625,1831,1856]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="1 - 200" refId="ref5197" refString="Cresson, E. T. (1865) On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 4, 1 - 200." type="journal article" year="1865">Cresson 1865</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has hind coxae pale reddish or stramineous and wings hyaline (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFA84F895FF54F36B" author="Cresson, E. T." pageId="4" pageNumber="441" pagination="1 - 200" refId="ref5197" refString="Cresson, E. T. (1865) On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 4, 1 - 200." type="journal article" year="1865">Cresson 1865</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFE89F8F1FE60F36C" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[333,487,1868,1891]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFE89F8F1FE60F36C" box="[333,487,1868,1891]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has coxae black and wings partially pigmented, with a few veins may be dark but most pale.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFEDFF8D2FDA6F388" ID-CoL="6B8JH" baseAuthorityName="Cresson" baseAuthorityYear="1865" box="[283,545,1903,1927]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marginiventris">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFEDFF8D2FDA6F388" box="[283,545,1903,1927]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia marginiventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been reported parasitizing different species of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFB40F8D3FB70F388" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[1156,1271,1902,1927]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFAE2F8D3FA1FF388" box="[1318,1432,1902,1927]" name="Argentina" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Argentina</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFF53F82FFE86F3A4" box="[151,257,1938,1963]" name="Bermuda" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Bermuda</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFEC8F82FFED4F3A4" box="[268,339,1938,1963]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE9AF82FFE19F3A4" box="[350,414,1938,1963]" name="Chile" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Chile</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE6DF82FFE60F3A4" box="[425,487,1938,1963]" name="Cuba" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cuba</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE36F82FFDEFF3A4" box="[498,616,1938,1963]" name="Nicaragua" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Nicaragua</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFDB7F82EFD2EF3A5" box="[627,681,1939,1962]" name="Peru" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Peru</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFD70F82EFCBBF3A4" box="[692,828,1938,1963]" name="Puerto Rico" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Puerto Rico</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFC83F82EFC2EF3A4" box="[839,937,1939,1963]" name="Uruguay" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Uruguay</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFC1BF82FFBD5F3A4" box="[991,1106,1938,1963]" name="Venezuela" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFBA5F82EFA82F3A4" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1121,1285,1938,1963]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFB4DF829FB46F3A4" box="[1161,1217,1938,1963]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB5FFFCFF03F80AFBEDF3FC" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF03F80AFE08F3C1" ID-CoL="6B8JF" baseAuthorityName="Brèthes" baseAuthorityYear="1924" box="[199,399,1975,1998]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marquesi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFF03F80AFE08F3C1" box="[199,399,1975,1998]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Cotesia marquesi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Brѐthes 1924) has been recorded so far parasitizing
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFBCBF80BFA1BF3C0" authority="Hubner" authorityName="Hubner" box="[1039,1436,1974,1999]" class="Insecta" family="Papilionidae" genus="Papilio" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="anchisiades" subSpecies="capys">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFBCBF80BFABAF3C1" box="[1039,1341,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Papilio anchisiades capys</emphasis>
Hübner
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFF5AF867FEABF3FC" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[158,300,2010,2035]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB5FFFCFEF2F867FE43F3FC" ID-CoL="DX5" box="[310,452,2010,2035]" class="Insecta" family="Papilionidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Papilionidae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFE2BF867FDD9F3FC" box="[495,606,2010,2035]" name="Argentina" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Argentina</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB5FFFCFD51F867FD5EF3FC" box="[661,729,2010,2035]" name="Brazil" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">Brazil</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFD2CF867FC37F3FC" author="Costa-Lima, A. M." box="[744,944,2010,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref5153" refString="Costa-Lima, A. M. (1950) Insetos do Brasil. 6 º tomo. Lepidopteros. 2 ª parte. Serie didatica. Numero 8. Capitulo 28. Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro, 420 pp." type="book" year="1950">Costa-Lima 1950</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB5FFFCFC78F866FBD9F3FC" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[956,1118,2010,2035]" pageId="4" pageNumber="441" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB5FFFCFC26F866FB9DF3FC" box="[994,1050,2010,2035]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FF25FD17F512" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FF25FDFBF4BF" ID-CoL="6B8KV" authority="(Viereck 1913)" authorityName="Viereck" authorityYear="1913" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[199,636,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mayaguezensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FF25FE4BF4BF" box="[199,460,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia mayaguezensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE1EFF2AFDF4F4BF" author="Viereck, H. L." box="[474,627,151,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="555 - 568" refId="ref7003" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1913) Description of ten new genera and twenty-three new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 555 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1968.555" type="journal article" year="1913">Viereck 1913</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has propodeum without a distinct median, longitudinal carina (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFA87FF2AFF54F4DB" author="Viereck, H. L." pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="555 - 568" refId="ref7003" refString="Viereck, H. L. (1913) Description of ten new genera and twenty-three new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 555 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1968.555" type="journal article" year="1913">Viereck 1913</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFE91FF00FE75F4DB" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[341,498,189,212]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFE91FF00FE75F4DB" box="[341,498,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the propodeum with a more or less complete, but anteriorly weak medial longitudinal carina.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFEBCFF5DFDFAF4F7" ID-CoL="6B8KV" baseAuthorityName="Viereck" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[376,637,224,248]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mayaguezensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFEBCFF5DFDFAF4F7" box="[376,637,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia mayaguezensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from an unidentified host on
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFB21FF5DFA1BF4F7" box="[1253,1436,223,248]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Vitaceae" genus="Cissus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" order="Vitales" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Magnoliopsida" rank="species" species="sicyoides">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFB21FF5DFA1BF4F7" box="[1253,1436,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cissus sicyoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L. (
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF79FEB9FEA6F512" authorityName="" authorityYear="1789" box="[189,289,260,285]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Vitaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" order="Vitales" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Magnoliopsida" rank="family">Vitaceae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFE89FEB8FE55F512" box="[333,466,260,285]" name="Puerto Rico" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Puerto Rico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE24FEB9FD03F512" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[480,644,260,285]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFDCCFEB8FDC7F512" box="[520,576,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FE95FD47F5DF" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FE95FDECF54F" ID-CoL="YXC9" authority="(Muesebeck 1958)" authorityName="Muesebeck" authorityYear="1958" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[199,619,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornatricis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FE95FE15F54F" box="[199,402,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia ornatricis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE65FE9AFDE4F54F" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[417,611,295,320]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has pro-, meso- and metacoxae piceous, yellow, and black, respectively, and mesoscutum rather uniformly punctate (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFD6FFEF1FCF0F56A" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[683,887,332,357]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFC38FEF0FB1CF56B" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1020,1179,333,356]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFC38FEF0FB1CF56B" box="[1020,1179,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has all coxae black, mesoscutum anteriorly with distinct dense punctures, but smooth posteriorly anterior to scutoscutellar sulcus.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF53FE28FEE5F5A3" ID-CoL="YXC9" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[151,354,405,428]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornatricis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF53FE28FEE5F5A3" box="[151,354,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia ornatricis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFD05FE29FBBAF5A2" ID-CoL="7F5P7" authority="Linnaeus 1758" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[705,1085,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Utetheisa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornatrix">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFD05FE29FC17F5A3" box="[705,912,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Utetheisa ornatrix</emphasis>
Linnaeus 1758
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFB89FE29FB31F5A2" ID-CoL="92529" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[1101,1206,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Erebidae</taxonomicName>
: Arctiinae) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFA93FE29FA1CF5A2" box="[1367,1435,404,429]" name="Brazil" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Brazil</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFF02FE0AFEB2F5DF" box="[198,309,439,464]" name="Colombia" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Colombia</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE87FE0AFD80F5DF" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[323,519,439,464]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFDD6FE05FD33F5DF" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[530,692,439,464]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFDFCFE04FDF6F5DF" box="[568,625,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FE60FAA7F632" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FE60FDC6F5FB" ID-CoL="YXCC" authority="(Schrottky 1902)" authorityName="Schrottky" authorityYear="1902" baseAuthorityName="Schrottky" baseAuthorityYear="1902" box="[199,577,476,501]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="paphi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FE60FEEBF5FA" box="[199,364,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia paphi</emphasis>
(Schrottky 1902)
</taxonomicName>
has, apparently, metasoma more compressed anteroposteriorly than
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFA46FE60FE89F617" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFA46FE60FE89F617" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFEE7FDBDFDE4F617" ID-CoL="HYM" authority="online" authorityName="Online" box="[291,611,511,536]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Hymenoptera online, 2018</taxonomicName>
).
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFDB8FDBDFCA7F617" ID-CoL="YXCC" baseAuthorityName="Schrottky" baseAuthorityYear="1902" box="[636,800,511,536]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="paphi">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFDB8FDBDFCA7F617" box="[636,800,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia paphi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from different species within the lepidopteran families
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFE4FFD99FE60F632" ID-CoL="625MK" box="[395,487,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFDD9FD99FD19F632" ID-CoL="GHS" box="[541,670,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Sphingidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Sphingidae</taxonomicName>
, in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFD02FD99FCBFF632" box="[710,824,548,573]" name="Argentina" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Argentina</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFC87FD99FC0DF632" box="[835,906,548,573]" name="Brazil" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Brazil</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFC52FD98FC4EF633" box="[918,969,549,572]" name="Peru" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Peru</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFC3BFD98FBE6F632" box="[1023,1121,549,573]" name="Uruguay" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Uruguay</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFBB4FD99FA94F632" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1136,1299,548,573]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFB5CFD98FB57F632" box="[1176,1232,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FDF5FA12F6FF" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FDF5FDE7F66F" ID-CoL="6B8KS" authority="(Ashmead 1900)" authorityName="Ashmead" authorityYear="1900" baseAuthorityName="Ashmead" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[199,608,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="parallelis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FDF5FE14F66F" box="[199,403,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia parallelis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE63FDFAFDDFF66F" author="Ashmead, W. H." box="[423,600,583,608]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="207 - 367" refId="ref4882" refString="Ashmead, W. H. (1900) Report upon the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the island of St. Vicent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1900, 207 - 367." type="journal article" year="1900">Ashmead 1900</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the metasoma, and first metasomal tergite a little more than twice as long as wide, with sides parallel (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFB89FDD1FA86F68B" author="Ashmead, W. H." box="[1101,1281,620,645]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="207 - 367" refId="ref4882" refString="Ashmead, W. H. (1900) Report upon the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the island of St. Vicent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1900, 207 - 367." type="journal article" year="1900">Ashmead 1900</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFA46FDD0FE89F6A7" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFA46FDD0FE89F6A7" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has ovipositor shorter, about one-third the length of the metasoma, and first metasomal tergite as long as wide, with slight widening from anterior margin to 0.7 of mediotergite length (widest point), then becoming rounder towards posterior margin.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFDD8FD65FD63F6FF" ID-CoL="6B8KS" baseAuthorityName="Ashmead" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[540,740,727,752]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="parallelis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFDD8FD65FD63F6FF" box="[540,740,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia parallelis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFBFBFD6AFB51F6FF" box="[1087,1238,727,752]" name="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Saint Vincent</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFB21FD65FA0EF6FF" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[1253,1417,727,752]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFAC9FD64FAC2F6FF" box="[1293,1349,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FD40FE70F7AA" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FD40FDF7F71B" ID-CoL="YXD8" authority="(Muesebeck 1921)" authorityName="Muesebeck" authorityYear="1921" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1921" box="[199,624,764,789]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="prenidis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FD40FE00F71A" box="[199,391,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia prenidis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE5AFD41FDEFF71B" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[414,616,764,789]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="483 - 576" refId="ref6075" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1921) A revision of the North American species of ichneumon-flies belonging to the genus Apanteles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 58, 483 - 576. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.2349.483" type="journal article" year="1921">Muesebeck 1921</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has the first metasomal tergite rugulose-punctate, and the second metasomal tergite broad, almost rectangular (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFD50FCA2FCDDF737" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[660,858,799,824]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="483 - 576" refId="ref6075" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1921) A revision of the North American species of ichneumon-flies belonging to the genus Apanteles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 58, 483 - 576. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.2349.483" type="journal article" year="1921">Muesebeck 1921</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFC16FC9DFBEDF737" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[978,1130,800,824]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFC16FC9DFBEDF737" box="[978,1130,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has first metasomal tergite mostly smooth, and the second metasomal tergite is somewhat triangular, broadening posteriorly.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFB20FCF8FA1BF752" ID-CoL="YXD8" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1921" box="[1252,1436,836,861]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="prenidis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFB20FCF8FA1BF752" box="[1252,1436,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia prenidis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFE28FCDAFC8BF78F" ID-CoL="92GVN" authority="(Latreille 1824)" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1824" baseAuthorityName="Latreille" baseAuthorityYear="1824" box="[492,780,871,896]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Nyctelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFE28FCDAFDD3F78F" box="[492,596,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Nyctelius</emphasis>
(Latreille 1824)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFC87FCD4FBE1F78F" ID-CoL="4CGBN" authority="Fabricius" authorityName="Fabricius" authorityYear="1798" box="[835,1126,871,896]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Panoquina" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nero">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFC87FCD4FC7FF78F" box="[835,1016,873,896]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Panoquina nero</emphasis>
Fabricius
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFBB1FCDAFA84F78F" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[1141,1283,871,896]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFAC9FCDAFA12F78F" ID-CoL="6254D" box="[1293,1429,871,896]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Hesperiidae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFF70FC30FEBEF7AA" box="[180,313,908,933]" name="Puerto Rico" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Puerto Rico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFE83FC31FE6CF7AA" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[327,491,908,933]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFEABFC30FE20F7AA" box="[367,423,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF03FC0DFEC9F03A" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFF03FC0DFDB3F7C7" ID-CoL="YXDN" authority="(Haliday 1834)" authorityName="Haliday" authorityYear="1834" baseAuthorityName="Haliday" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[199,564,943,968]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ruficrus">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF03FC0DFEF9F7C7" box="[199,382,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia ruficrus</emphasis>
(Haliday 1834)
</taxonomicName>
has legs rufous-testaceous (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFCB2FC0DFBA5F7C7" author="Cameron, P." box="[886,1058,944,968]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" pagination="333 - 346" refId="ref5073" refString="Cameron, P. (1911) On a collection of parasitic Hymenoptera (chiefly bred) made by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F. L. S., in New South Wales, with description of new genera and species. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 36, 333 - 346. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 21902" type="journal article" year="1911">Cameron 1911</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFB59FC0DFABFF7C7" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[1181,1336,944,968]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFB59FC0DFABFF7C7" box="[1181,1336,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has legs mostly yellow-honey.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFE4BFC68FDC2F7E3" ID-CoL="YXDN" baseAuthorityName="Haliday" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[399,581,980,1004]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ruficrus">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFE4BFC68FDC2F7E3" box="[399,581,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia ruficrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFC9CFC69FBFAF7E2" ID-CoL="622G8" authority="(Coleoptera)" baseAuthorityName="Coleoptera" box="[856,1149,980,1005]" class="Insecta" family="Bostrichidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)</taxonomicName>
, and lepidopterans within the families,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFEEEFC4AFE39F01F" ID-CoL="6247J" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[298,446,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Geometridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFE0DFC4AFDD5F01F" ID-CoL="6254D" box="[457,594,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Hesperiidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFD99FC4AFD67F01F" ID-CoL="C98" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[605,736,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Lycaenidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Lycaenidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFD28FC4AFCE5F01F" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[748,866,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFCA9FC4AFB83F01F" ID-CoL="DGC" box="[877,1028,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Nymphalidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Nymphalidae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFBF8FC4AFB1CF01F" ID-CoL="625MK" box="[1084,1179,1015,1040]" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
, in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB4FFFDFB00FC4AFA1AF01F" box="[1220,1437,1015,1040]" name="Trinidad and Tobago" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Trinidad &amp; Tobago</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB4FFFDFF5AFBA1FEC5F03A" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[158,322,1052,1077]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF02FBA0FF78F03A" box="[198,255,1052,1077]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<caption id="DF40E3A7FFB4FFFDFF53F8D9FE9CF3B8" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618445/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" startId="5.[151,250,1892,1914]" targetBox="[168,1417,1146,1850]" targetPageId="5">
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB4FFFDFF53F8D9FE9CF3B8" blockId="5.[151,1436,1892,1975]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFF53F8D9FE94F376" bold="true" box="[151,275,1892,1914]" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
(a) Parasitized larva of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFDC3F8D9FCD9F375" ID-CoL="93866" baseAuthorityName="Schaus" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[519,862,1892,1914]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Oospila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallidaria">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFDC3F8D9FD44F375" box="[519,707,1892,1914]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Oospila pallidaria</emphasis>
(Geometridae)
</taxonomicName>
in the fourth instar, with a swollen body in the posterior half, (b) parasitized larva in the abaxial side of the leaf, and (c) dead larva and yellow cocoon of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB4FFFDFB13F83EFE9CF3B8" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="442" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB4FFFDFB13F83EFA1BF396" box="[1239,1436,1923,1945]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="442">Cotesia itororensis</emphasis>
(Braconidae)
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB7FFFEFF03FF25FA0EF54F" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,645]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF03FF25FDC4F4BF" ID-CoL="6B8KY" authority="(Muesebeck 1958)" authorityName="Muesebeck" authorityYear="1958" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[199,579,151,176]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schini">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFF03FF25FEEFF4BF" box="[199,360,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia schini</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFEBCFF2AFDBCF4BF" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[376,571,151,176]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
has mesoscutum uniformly covered with distinct, separated punctures, and tegulae and wing bases yellow (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFE3AFF01FD44F4DA" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[510,707,188,213]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFCFFFF00FC54F4DB" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[827,979,189,212]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFCFFFF00FC54F4DB" box="[827,979,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has mesoscutum anteriorly with distinct dense punctures, becoming smooth posteriorly, and tegulae dark brown translucent, and wings with few veins dark, but most pale.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFEFFFEB8FE5DF512" ID-CoL="6B8KY" baseAuthorityName="Muesebeck" baseAuthorityYear="1958" box="[315,474,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schini">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFEFFFEB8FE5DF512" box="[315,474,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia schini</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded so far from an unidentified caterpillar of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFBBEFEB9FB72F512" ID-CoL="FSJ" authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1895" box="[1146,1269,260,285]" class="Insecta" family="Riodinidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Riodinidae</taxonomicName>
feeding on the Brazilian pepper tree or Christmas berry tree,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFD5DFE9AFB2DF54F" authority="Raddi" authorityName="Raddi" authorityYear="1820" box="[665,1194,295,320]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Anacardiaceae" genus="Schinus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Sapindales" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="terebinthifolius">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFD5DFE9AFC26F54F" box="[665,929,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Schinus terebinthifolius</emphasis>
Raddi (Anacardiaceae)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFB7CFE9AFAFAF54F" author="Muesebeck, CF" box="[1208,1405,295,320]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="405 - 461" refId="ref6125" refString="Muesebeck, CF. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405" type="journal article" year="1958">Muesebeck 1958</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB7FFFEFF03FEF0FC30F5A2" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,645]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF03FEF0FD8AF56B" ID-CoL="YXFD" authority="(Riley 1881)" authorityName="Riley" authorityYear="1881" baseAuthorityName="Riley" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[199,525,332,357]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="theclae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFF03FEF0FEF2F56A" box="[199,373,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia theclae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFE41FEF1FD82F56B" author="Riley, C. V." box="[389,517,332,357]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="296 - 315" refId="ref6295" refString="Riley, C. V. (1881) Notes on North American Microgasters, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 4, 296 - 315." type="journal article" year="1881">Riley 1881</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
female has antennae much shorter than the body (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFB8DFEF1FB4BF56B" author="Riley, C. V." box="[1097,1228,332,357]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="296 - 315" refId="ref6295" refString="Riley, C. V. (1881) Notes on North American Microgasters, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 4, 296 - 315." type="journal article" year="1881">Riley 1881</bibRefCitation>
); whereas females of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF71FECDFECAF587" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[181,333,368,392]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFF71FECDFECAF587" box="[181,333,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has antennae as long as the body length.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFCDEFECDFC40F587" ID-CoL="YXFD" baseAuthorityName="Riley" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[794,967,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="theclae">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFCDEFECDFC40F587" box="[794,967,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia theclae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded from different families of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF71FE29FEBBF5A2" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[181,316,404,429]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFE8FFE29FE4BF5A2" ID-CoL="C98" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[331,460,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Lycaenidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Lycaenidae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFDC7FE29FDFFF5A2" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[515,632,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
) in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB7FFFEFD67FE29FD7FF5A2" box="[675,760,404,429]" name="Mexico" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Mexico</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFCC3FE29FC2CF5A2" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[775,939,404,429]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFCEBFE28FCE0F5A2" box="[815,871,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B80B32FFFB7FFFEFF03FE05FBB0F68A" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,645]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF03FE05FDA9F5DF" ID-CoL="YXFM" authority="(Haliday 1834)" authorityName="Haliday" authorityYear="1834" baseAuthorityName="Haliday" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[199,558,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vestalis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFF03FE05FEFEF5DF" box="[199,377,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia vestalis</emphasis>
(Haliday 1834)
</taxonomicName>
has femora mostly yellowish/orangish, sometimes darker at base or tip, hind coxae mostly dark brown to black, apically slightly paler and first metasomal tergite mostly rugose-punctate in basal third (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFEE5FE42FE20F617" author="Shaw, M. R." box="[289,423,511,536]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" pagination="187 - 189" refId="ref6506" refString="Shaw, M. R. (2003) Revised synonymy in the genus Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae): the identity of Microgaster vestalis Haliday, 1834, as a senior synonym of Apanteles plutellae Kurdjumov, 1912. Entomologist's Gazette, 54, 187 - 189." type="journal article" year="2003">Shaw 2003</bibRefCitation>
); whereas
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFDE0FDBDFD39F617" authorityName="Sousa-Lopes &amp; Whitfield &amp; Salgado-Neto &amp; Del-Claro" authorityYear="2019" box="[548,702,512,536]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="itororensis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFDE0FDBDFD39F617" box="[548,702,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">C. itororensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has femora honey-yellow, coxae black and the first metasomal tergite mostly smooth.
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFE5BFD98FDD5F632" ID-CoL="YXFM" baseAuthorityName="Haliday" baseAuthorityYear="1834" box="[415,594,548,573]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Cotesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vestalis">
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFE5BFD98FDD5F632" box="[415,594,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Cotesia vestalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded parasitizing several species of
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFB57FD99FA9DF632" ID-CoL="LP" authorityName="" authorityYear="1758" box="[1171,1306,548,573]" class="Insecta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="order">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
among the families
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF38FDFAFEE0F66F" authorityName="Leach" authorityYear="1815" box="[252,359,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Arctiidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFEB2FDFAFDA5F66F" ID-CoL="BSP" authorityName="Harris" authorityYear="1841" box="[374,546,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Lasiocampidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Lasiocampidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFDF5FDFAFD4EF66F" authorityName="Hampson" authorityYear="1893" box="[561,713,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Lymantriidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Lymantriidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFD1CFDFAFCC9F66F" ID-CoL="DD9" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1809" box="[728,846,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFC99FDFAFC7FF66F" ID-CoL="99D6W" authorityName="" authorityYear="1829" box="[861,1016,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Notodontidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Notodontidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFBC3FDFAFB26F66F" ID-CoL="DGC" box="[1031,1185,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Nymphalidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Nymphalidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFB74FDFAFA88F66F" ID-CoL="625MK" box="[1200,1295,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Pieridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pieridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFAD9FDFAFA1FF66F" ID-CoL="627FR" box="[1309,1432,583,608]" class="Insecta" family="Plutellidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Plutellidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFF53FDD1FEB0F68A" ID-CoL="8TLBR" box="[151,311,620,645]" class="Insecta" family="Pterophoridae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pterophoridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFE86FDD1FE28F68A" ID-CoL="FG2" box="[322,431,620,645]" class="Insecta" family="Pyralidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pyralidae</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C3FC8ACFFB7FFFEFE2DFDD1FDE0F68A" ID-CoL="HBJ" box="[489,615,620,645]" class="Insecta" family="Tortricidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tortricidae</taxonomicName>
, in
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB7FFFEFD4AFDD1FD79F68A" box="[654,766,620,645]" name="Argentina" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Argentina</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F328F3BFFFB7FFFEFCF0FDD1FCFFF68A" box="[820,888,620,645]" name="Brazil" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">Brazil</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAECEDEFFB7FFFEFC43FDD1FBACF68A" author="Yu, D. S. K. &amp; Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K." box="[903,1067,620,645]" pageId="6" pageNumber="443" refId="ref7205" refString="Yu, D. S. K., Van Achterberg, C. &amp; Horstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. Available from: http: // www. taxapad. com (accessed 11 December 2018)" type="url" year="2016">
Yu
<emphasis id="B94B6F3DFFB7FFFEFC6BFDD0FC60F68A" box="[943,999,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="443">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>