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Colastes braconius
Haliday, 1833
Overview
Taxonomy
Description
Biology
A solitary idiobiont ectoparasitoid or endoparasitoid. Known to oviposit in larva/nymph. Known to emerge from host larva/nymph, from prepupa or from host pupa.
there are
151 host records
.
The recorded parasitoids are
Chrysocharis laomedon
,
Chrysocharis nepherea
,
Cirrospilus diallus
, Cirrospilus vittatus,
Pediobius alcaeus
,
Pnigalio longulus
,
Pnigalio soemius
and
Sympiesis sericeicornis
.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from
44 countries and regions
.
Accepted name
Colastes braconius
Haliday, 1833
Original name
Colastes braconius
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Colastes
Exothecus
Phanomeris
Rogas
Synonyms
Colastes debilis
Colastes gracilis
Type
National Museum of Ireland
, Dublin, Ireland (female, lectotype)
Type of
Colastes
This text has been automatically generated based on data from Taxapad (Yu et. al, 2016) and may contain errors or incoplete information.
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References
Yu, D.S.K., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. 2016. Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015 (Biological and taxonomical information), Taxapad Interactive Catalogue Database on flashdrive. Nepean, Ottawa.