Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2021, Review of the braconid parasitoid subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, European Journal of Taxonomy 765 (1), pp. 1-143 : 127

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scientific name	Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927
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Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927 View in CoL

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Rhaconotus scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927: 34 View in CoL .

Rhaconotus scirpophagae View in CoL – Nixon 1939: 123; 1941: 482. — Polaszek et al. 1994: 80. — van Achterberg & Polaszek 1996: 59. — Belokobylskij 2001b: 133. — Yu et al. 2016.

Material examined

YEMEN • 1 ♀; “Yemen (4054), Al Kowd, viii.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’00”; RMNH .

Hosts

Chilo auricilius Dudgeon, 1905 , Сh. partellus (Swinhoe, 1885), Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker, 1863) , S. nivella (Fabricius, 1794) (Crambidae) ; Busseola fusca (Fuller, 1901) (Noctuidae) ; Maliarpha separatella Ragonot, 1888 (Pyralidae) ( Lepidoptera ).

Distribution

Oriental: Bangladesh, China ( Taiwan, introduced), India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Vietnam; Afrotropical: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius (introduced), Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, * Yemen; Neotropical: Trinidad & Tobago (introduced).

References

Belokobylskij S. A. 2001 b. New species of the genera Rhaconotus Ruthe, Ipodoryctes Granger and Arhaconotus Blkb. from the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Doryctinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 10 (1): 101 - 162.

Nixon G. E. J. 1939. New species of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of Entomological Research 30: 119 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300004430

Nixon G. E. J. 1941. The Indian and African species of Rhaconotus Ruthe (Hym., Braconidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 7: 473 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745481.1941.9723712

Polaszek A., Fitton M. G., Bianchi G. & Huddleston T. 1994. The parasitoids of the African white rice borer, Maliarpha separatella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 65 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300032247

van Achterberg C. & Polaszek A. 1996. The parasites of cereal stem borers (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Crambidae, Noctuidae, Pyralidae) in Africa, belonging to the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zoologische Verhandelingen 304: 1 - 123.

Wilkinson D. S. 1927. Eight new species of Braconidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 18: 33 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300019659

Yu D. S. K., van Achterberg C. & Horstmann K. 2016. Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Database on flash-drive. Nepean, Ontario.

Figures

Fig. 57.Rhaconotus (Rh.) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927, ♀ (RMNH). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Head, dorsal view. C. Head, front view. D. Head and basal segments of antenna, lateral view. E. Hind coxa and femur. F. Hind tibia. G. Mesosoma, dorsal view. H. Mesosoma, lateral view. I. Mesoscutum and scutellum, dorsal view.

Fig. 58. Rhaconotus (Rh.) scirpophagae Wilkinson, 1927, ♀ (RMNH). A. Fore wing. B. Hind wing. C. Metasoma, dorsal view. D. Metasoma, lateral view.

Abbreviations

RMNH	Netherlands, Leiden, Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum ("Naturalis") [formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie]
RMNH	National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis