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Cotesia ofella Nixon 1974

Description

Cotesia ofella (Nixon, 1974)

Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Ghahari et al. 2010a), West Azarbaijan (Karimpour et al. 2001). Distribution outside Iran. Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK (Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Simara dentinosa (Karimpour et al. 2001; Yu et al. 2012). It has been also reported from Acronicta aceris, A. rumicis, Spilosoma lubricipida (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012) and Euthrix potatoria (Yu et al. 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4043 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289993

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Braconidae
Genus
Cotesia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Nixon
Species
ofella
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cotesia ofella Nixon, 1974 sec. Gadallah, Ghahari & Peris-Felipo, 2015

References

  • Nixon, G. E. J. (1974) A revision of the north-western European species of the glomeratus - group of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the Entomological Research, 64, 453 - 524. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300031333
  • Ghahari, H., Fischer, M., Erdogan, O. C., Beyarslan, A. & Ostovan, H. (2010 a) A contribution to the braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the forests of northern Iran. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 42 (1), 621 - 634.
  • Karimpour, Y., Fathipour, Y., Talebi, A. A. & Moharramipour, S. (2001) Report of two endoparasitoid wasps, Cotesia ofella (Nixon) and Cotesia vanessae (Hym.: Braconidae) on larvae of Simara dentinosa Freyer (Lep.: Noctuidae) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 21 (2), 106.
  • Yu, D. S., Achterberg, C. van & Horstmann, K. (2012) Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011, Database on flash-drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.