Microplitis tuberculifer (Wesmael, 1837)

Microplitis tuberculifera: Catoni 1914, Ruschka and Fulmek 1915, Boselli 1928

Microplites tuberculifera (Wesm.) Reinh.: Stellwaag 1928

Italian distribution of reared parasitoids.

Trentino-South Tyrol: Catoni 1914, Ruschka and Fulmek 1915

Distribution.

Microplitis tuberculifer is widespread and common throughout the Palearctic region, with the exception of North Africa.

Host range.

It is a solitary koinobiont endoparasitoid of Lepidopteran larvae ( Noctuidae and Geometridae), and it is also reported on Eupoecilia ambiguella in Austria, together with EGVM (Ruschka and Fulmek 1915), and Bulgaria (Balevski 1989, Yu et al. 2012).

The only Italian records of this species on the two vine moths are due to Catoni (1914) and Ruschka and Fulmek (1915).