Cotesia urabae Austin & Allen, 1989

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P. & Austin, Andrew D., 2020, Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 667 (667), pp. 1-70 : 56-58

Cotesia urabae Austin & Allen, 1989

Fig. 31 A–B

Cotesia urabae Austin & Allen, 1989: 171 (holotype, ♀, ANIC).

Cotesia urabae – Austin & Dangerfield 1992: 22.

Diagnosis

Cotesia urabae can be separated from all other species of Cotesia currently described from Australia and Papua New Guinea by the following combination of characters: T1 broadening consistently posteriorly, almost wedge shaped; scutellar disk smooth with small punctures associated with setae; mesosoma not dorsoventrally flattened; hind coxa and metasoma as dark; ocelli normal sized, ocular-ocellar line/ posterior ocellus diameter <2.4; fore wing vein r normally longer than, occasionally of similar length to 2RS; hind tibia with only a very small darkened patch, mainly in dorsal view.

Material examined

Paratype

AUSTRALIA • ♀; South Australia, Waite Agricultural Research Institute lab colony; Jan. 1986; G.R. Allen leg.; ex. Uraba lugens ; WINC .

Distribution

SA (record from original description), Tas (record from Muirhead et al. 2006; Rowbottom et al. 2013), New Zealand (introduced, see Avila et al. 2015).

Host

Uraba lugens Walker, 1866 (Noctuidae) , solitary (record from original description).

Remarks

As this species is only recently described and the description is relatively complete, here we provide only new characters or measurements relevant to the diagnosis, and refer otherwise to the description in Austin & Allen (1989).

Figures

Fig. 31. A–B. Cotesia urabae Austin & Allen, 1989, paratype, ♀ (WINC). A. Habitus in dorsal view. B. Fore wing. C–E. Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834), ♀ (WINC). C. Head in dorsal view and anteromesoscutum. D. Propodeum and dorsal metasoma E. Fore wing.