Mesochorus, Gravenhorst, 1829

Shimizu, So, Chen, Hsuan-Pu, Lin, Kai-Ti, Chen, Ren-Jye, Fujie, Shunpei, Hung, Su-Chuan, Lo, Mei-Ling, Tsai, Ke-Hsiung & Maeto, Kaoru, 2023, Online citizen sciences reveal natural enemies and new occurrence data of Meteorus stellatus Fujie, Shimizu & Maeto, 2021 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103436-103436 : 103436

Mesochorus

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Adult wasps emerged from cocoon of Meteorus stellatus.; recordedBy: Chun-Chun Deng ; individualCount: 8; sex: 2 females and 6 males; lifeStage: adult; disposition: voucher NMNS; occurrenceID: F25D6EF5-6A92-5F41-823B-70A34C6548C0; Taxon : scientificName: Mesochorus ; acceptedNameUsage: Mesochorus ; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Ichneumonidae ; genus: Mesochorus ; taxonRank: genus; nomenclaturalCode: ICZN; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : continent: Asia ; islandGroup: Taiwan; island: Taiwan; country: Taiwan; countryCode: TW; stateProvince: Taipei; municipality: Da'an District ; locality: Fujhoushan park ; Identification : identifiedBy: So Shimizu , Hsuan-Pu Chen , Kai-Ti Lin ; dateIdentified: 2022; identificationReferences: Araujo et al. 2018; Event : eventDate: 21/01/2022; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 21; Record Level : type: PhysicalObject ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen ; source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/588350308851792/permalink/665203134499842 /

Ecology

This genus is known to be hyperparasitoids of other parasitoid wasps, including Meteorus species ( Yu et al. 2016). Adult wasps examined in the present study emerged from the cocoon of M. stellatus .

Taxon discussion

Preserved specimens were identified as belonging to this genus, based on the key provided by Araujo et al. (2018).