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Cotesia zygaenarum
(Marshall, 1885)
Overview
Taxonomy
Description
Biology
A gregarious koinobiont endoparasitoid. Known to emerge from host larva/nymph.
there are
16 host records
.
The recorded parasitoids are
Acrolyta nens
,
Acrolyta rufocincta
,
Elasmus platyedrae
,
Eupelmus vesicularis
,
Gelis agilis
,
Gelis anthracinus
, Gelis meigenii, Gelis monozonius,
Lysibia nana
,
Mesochorus olerum
and
Mesochorus velox
.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from
35 countries and regions
.
Accepted name
Cotesia zygaenarum
(Marshall, 1885)
Original name
Apanteles zygaenarum
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Apanteles
Cotesia
Microgaster
Type
The Natural History Museum, Department of Entomology
, London, England (female, lectotype)
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.
