Asobara anastrephae ( Muesebeck, 1958 )

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 : 23

Asobara anastrephae ( Muesebeck, 1958)

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Diagnosis. Mandibles exondont with three well-developed teeth, notauli incomplete, propodeum with short median carina anteriorly and areola posteriorly, wings hyaline, stigma brown, fore wing (RS+M)b present, 2 nd submarginal cell long 4-sided, 1 st subdiscal cell very weakly defined posteriorly and distally, hind wing with Cu-a and m-cu absent.

Comments. Asobara anastrephae is associated with 10 species of Anastrepha and C. capitata (see Zucchi & Moraes 2008, 2012) in Brazil, but it is not collected frequently.

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).