Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834)

Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4567 (1), pp. 47-60 : 56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944626

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5D-B309-689E-9B28FEAD8D54

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834)
status

 

Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834) View in CoL

Material examined: MALTA, Naxxar, 26. vi.2012, 1 ♂, reared from a larva of a Plusiinae , MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa] .

Notes: The above cited material was incorrectly identified and cited as C. ruficrus (Haliday) by Papp (2015). Cotesia vestalis (= plutellae Kurdjumov) is a well-known koinobiont endoparasitoid of the plutellid, Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus) but parasitises several other low-feeding hosts including species of Noctuidae and Nymphalidae .

MZ

Museum of the Earth, Polish Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Cotesia

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