Cotesia glabrata ( Telenga, 1955 )

Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, European Journal of Taxonomy 571, pp. 1-25 : 13-16

Cotesia glabrata ( Telenga, 1955)

Fig. 5

Apanteles glabratus Telenga, 1955: 132 .

Diagnosis

Antenna shorter than body 0.8, penultimate segment 1.4× as long as wide; width of face 1.4 × as long as height ( Fig. 5A ); POL:MOD:OOL 15: 6:11; width of head in dorsal view 2.1× as long as height ( Fig. 5B ); mesonotum shallowly punctuate, shiny; scutellum smooth, shiny ( Fig. 5C ); 1–R1 1.3× as long as pterostigma, 3.4× as long as distance from end of 1–R1 to tip of radial cell; pterostigma 2.4× as long as wide ( Fig. 5D ); metacoxa smooth; first tergite distinctly broader posteriorly, medial length 0.8× as long as apical width, rugose; second tergite in middle smooth and laterally rugose, 3× wider than long medially ( Fig. 5E ); ovipositor sheath 0.5× as long as metabasitarsus; hypopygium 0.6× as long as metatibia ( Fig. 5F ); body black.

Material examined

IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 4 ♀♀; Shooshtar, Ferdows ; 31°58ʹ42.89″ N, 48°47′16.24″ E; 37 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr. –4 May 2016, 5–19 Jun. 2017, 22 Jun.–6 Jul. 2017; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0052-0055 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 20 Apr.–4 May 2016; ICAR- NBAIR /NIM/MICROG/COT/20416 .

Distribution in Iran

Khuzestan (present study). New record for Iran.

General distribution

Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine ( Yu et al. 2016).

Host records

Lepidoptera : Geometridae Leach, 1815 , Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809 , Pieridae Swainson, 1820 ( Yu et al. 2016).

New records of Cotesia from Khuzestan Province of Iran

Figures

Fig. 5. Cotesia glabrata (Telenga, 1955), ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/20416. A. Head, frontal view. B. Head, dorsal view. C. Mesosoma, dorsal view. D. Fore wing. E. Metasoma, dorsal view. F. Habitus, lateral view.