Doryctobracon whartoni Marinho & Penteado-Dias, 2017

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 : 26

Doryctobracon whartoni Marinho & Penteado-Dias, 2017

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Diagnosis. Fore wing infumate with two hyaline bands, one near base and one on apical half of wing; stigma yellow; propodeum areolate; 2 nd submarginal cell short 4-sided; hind wing m-cu present (details in Marinho et al. 2017).

Comments. Doryctobracon whartoni is closely related to D. areolatus and D. adaimei , but differs from these species in morphometric and molecular data ( Marinho et al. 2017). These three species can be differentiated by wing color (see key). Doryctobracon whartoni occurs in Pedra Branca do Amapari, state of Amapá, parasitizing Anastrepha atrigona in fruits of Geissospermum argenteum Woodson ( Deus et al. 2010). This species was previously mentioned in the Brazilian literature as Doryctobracon sp. 1 ( Marinho et al. 2017).

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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).