Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928)

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 : 21

Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928)

Fig. 16A

Apanteles erionotae Wilkinson, 1928: 83 (holotype, ♀, NHMUK).

Cotesia erionotae – Austin & Dangerfield 1992: 21 (transfer from Apanteles s.l.).

Diagnosis

Cotesia erionotae can be separated from all other species of Cotesia currently described from Australia and Papua New Guinea by the following combination of characters: T3 pale; T1–2 mostly pale; antennae pale.

Material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • 1 ♀; Parit Buntar; Mar. 1922; G.H. Corbett leg.; parasite from Erionota thrax (Linnaeus, 1767) ; “233”; NHMUK 3.c.1037.

Distribution

Malaysia (from type specimens); Papua New Guinea (introduced, see Waterhouse et al. 1998); Thailand, Mauritius (introduced), Guam (introduced), Hawaii (introduced), Saipan (introduced) (Waterhouse & Norris 1989).

Host

Erionota thrax (Hesperiidae) (record from type material), gregarious ( Okolle et al. 2006).

Remarks

We include this species in the key due to its presence in Papua New Guinea, but it is not known to occur in Australia.

Figures

Fig. 16. A. Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson, 1928), holotype, ♀ (NHMUK 3.c.1037). B. Cotesia geometricae Austin, 2000, paratype (WINC).