Cotesia mendicae (Tobias, 1986)

Hoecherl, Amelie, Shaw, Mark R., Boudreault, Caroline, Rabl, Dominik, Haszprunar, Gerhard, Raupach, Michael J., Schmidt, Stefan, Baranov, Viktor & Fernandez-Triana, Jose, 2024, Scratching the tip of the iceberg: integrative taxonomy reveals 30 new species records of Microgastrinae (Braconidae) parasitoid wasps for Germany, including new Holarctic distributions, ZooKeys 1188, pp. 305-386 : 305

Cotesia mendicae (Tobias, 1986)

Material examined.

Austria: Lower Austria, Raglitz , ex. Phragmatobia fuliginosa , 06.viii.2006, leg. J. Connell, MS 055 ; Germany: Bavaria: Balderschwang, Leiterberg , 47.489, 10.088, 1600 m, Malaise trap, 21.ix.2017, leg. D. Doczkal, J. Voith, ZSM-HYM-42326-A10 .

Geographical distribution.

PAL.

PAL: Austria*, Germany*, Kazakhstan, Russia (VOR).

Molecular data.

BIN: partially BOLD:AAA7143.

Host information.

Host of (para-)type Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759); also Erebidae : Phragmatobia fuliginosa * (Linnaeus, 1758).

Notes.

Specimens were compared with the information provided in Tobias (1986) and Papp (1990). The specimen from Austria (MS 055) was compared to a paratype and reared from the same host group as the paratype. The COI barcode sequences of the Austrian and German specimens match 100% over a length of 616 bp and the specimens are very similar in morphology. This BIN includes many clearly different species of Cotesia ; see discussion below about this “megaBIN”. ASAP clustering resolves the sequences of this species as a single cluster. No host is mentioned in the original description ( Tobias 1986) but the paratype seen by Mark Shaw is labelled as from " S. " Diaphora mendica [ Diaphora mendica (Clerck, 1759)]. Here we present a related host record from Phragmatobia fuliginosa based on a gregarious brood from Austria (MS 055). Our sequences of this species are part of BIN BOLD:AAA71433. This species is illustrated in Fig. 13 .

Figures

Figure 13. Cotesia mendicae (Tobias, 1986), female (ZSM-HYM- 42326 - A 10) A lateral view B wing C mesosoma D metasoma E head frontal view. Length of the specimen: 2.85 mm.