Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944626 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5D-B309-689E-9B28FEAD8D54 |
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Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834) |
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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 .
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Museum of the Earth, Polish Academy of Sciences |
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