Microgaster messoria Haliday, 1834

Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4567 (1), pp. 47-60 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944636

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5E-B30A-689E-9C70FC248C58

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Microgaster messoria Haliday, 1834
status

 

Microgaster messoria Haliday, 1834 View in CoL

Material examined: MALTA, Il-Fawwara limits of Għajn Tuffieħa, 29. iii.2006, 1 ♀, emerged from Avaria hyerana ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ), MZ, NMS; Mgarr, 15. xii.2013, 1 ♂ & 2♀♀, from Cydia amplana , MZ, DMC, NMS [parasitoids identified by Mark Shaw; hosts identified by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: This is a solitary koinobionnt endoparasitoid of Lepidoptera larvae including Tortricidae , Gracillaridae and Crambidae among others ( Vance, 1932; Yu et al., 2012; Shaw, 2012). The M. messoria larva undergoes three instars in which it feeds on the host internally. It then emerges from the host and feeds on it externally during its final instar prior to constructing its cocoon ( Vance, 1932, as M. tibialis ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Microgaster

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