Doryctobracon brasiliensis ( Szépligeti, 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 brasiliensis ( Szépligeti, 1911)

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Diagnosis. This species is readily distinguished by the infumate fore wing and yellow stigma, propodeal sculpture reduced to two apical ridges, notauli incomplete, fore wing with 2 nd submarginal cell short with 4-sided, and hind wing with m-cu present.

Comments. Doryctobracon brasiliensis is distributed in northern, southwestern and southern Brazil, parasitizing nine Anastrepha species, including economically important species such as the South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus , the West Indian fruit fly ( A. obliqua ), and also the Mediterranean fly ( C. capitata ) ( Souza Filho 1999). For this reason, rearing techniques for D. brasiliensis are being studied in Brazil ( Poncio et al. 2018).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Fruit fly braconid parasitoids. Asobara anastrephae (A); Microcrasis lonchaeae (B); Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (C); Doryctobracon adaimei (D); D. areolatus (E); D. brasiliensis (F) (figures are not on the same scale).