Published March 14, 2019
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Meteorus pulchricornis
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Description
Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel, 1835)
Material examined: MALTA, Buskett, 25. v.2014, 2 ♂♂, from larvae of Xanthia ruticilla (Esper) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa].
Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. It is a koinobiont larval endoparasitoid with an exceptionally wide recorded host range that extends to fifteen families (in ten superfamilies) of Lepidoptera and includes numerous Noctuidae (Maeto, 2018).
Notes
Published as part of Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, pp. 47-60 in Zootaxa 4567 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2593032
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Meteorus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wesamel
- Species
- pulchricornis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel, 1835) sec. Mifsud, Farrugia & Shaw, 2019
References
- Maeto, K. (2018) Polyphagous koinobiosis: the biology and biocontrol potential of a braconid endoparasitoid of exophytic caterpillars. Applied Entomology and Zoology, 53 (4), 433 - 446. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13355 - 018 - 0581 - 9