Cotesia glomerata ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P. & Austin, Andrew D., 2020, Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 667 (667), pp. 1-70 : 25-27

Cotesia glomerata ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Fig. 18A , C–D

Ichneumon glomeratus Linnaeus, 1758: 568 (holotype unknown).

Apanteles glomeratus Nixon, 1974: 492 (redescription).

Cotesia glomerata – Mason 1981: 112 (transferred from Apanteles s.l.).

For a full list of synonyms and bibliography, see Shenefelt (1972: 519), Yu et al. (2016) and Fernández-Triana et al. (2020).

Diagnosis

Cotesia glomerata can be separated from all other species of Cotesia currently described from Australia and Papua New Guinea by the following combination of characters: ventral hypopygium deeply emarginate; T1 parallel sided; fore wing 2RS not creating a ‘stub’ at junction with r; T3 only sparsely setose, mostly in posterior third; anteromescutum punctate but smoother than most other species.

Material examined

Other material

AUSTRALIA – Victoria • 1 ♀; St. Arnaud, Australian Bible Museum Butterfly Garden ; 36.61281° S, 143.25478° E; 2013; E. Reid leg.; reared from Pieris rapae ; BOLD COI code for specimens from same rearing event: AUMIC014-18 and AUMIC022-18 ; WINC • 1 ♀; Hastings ; emerged 29 Aug. 2018 from bright yellow cocoons; P. Zacchariah leg.; BOLD COI code for specimen from same rearing event: AUMIC545-19; WINC. – Western Australia • 2 ♂♂; South Perth ; 9 Nov. 1983; E. Zenta leg.; Apanteles glomeratus det. A.D. Austin 1984; WINC C.I.E. Coll. A. 15750 .

Distribution

Found in all states and territories of Australia, see Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for global distribution.

Host

Pieris rapae (Pieridae) ; see Shenefelt (1972: 519), Nixon (1974: 492) and Yu et al. (2016) for extralimital host records.

Figures

Fig. 18. A. Cotesia glomerata (Linnaeus, 1758), specimen from South Perth (WINC), habitus in dorsal view. B. C. kazak (Telenga, 1949), specimen from Mariginiup (WINC), habitus in dorsal view. C. C. glomerata, specimen from Victoria (WINC), hypopygium in ventral view, arrow pointing towards emarginated area. D. C. glomerata, fore wing. E. C. kazak, fore wing.