Doryctobracon crawfordi ( Viereck, 1911 )

Marinho, Cláudia F., Costa, Valmir A. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2018, Annotated checklist and illustrated key to braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of economically important fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil, Zootaxa 4527 (1), pp. 21-36 : 25

Doryctobracon crawfordi ( Viereck, 1911)

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Diagnosis. Head dark and mandibles brownish, propodeal sculpture reduced to two apical ridges, wing evenly infumate, stigma blackish, 2 nd submarginal cell short with 4-sided.

Comments. The dark head easily distinguishes D. crawfordi from the other braconids that parasitize fruitinfesting tephritids. This parasitoid was found recently in Amapá and Roraima states of northern Brazil ( Zucchi et al. 2011). Its known hosts are A. atrigona Hendel , A. coronilli Carrejo & González and A. serpentina (Wiedemann) .

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FIGURE 2. Fruit fly braconid parasitoids. Doryctobracon crawfordi (A); D. fluminensis (B); D. whartoni (C); Fopius arisanus (D); Opius bellus (E);Utetes anastrephae (F) (figures are not on the same scale).