TY - JOUR
T1 - Cotesia invirae, sp. nov., from South Brazil
T2 - a new gregarious microgastrine wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)reared from Opsiphanes invirae (Nymphalidae)feeding on palms
AU - Salgado-Neto, Geraldo
AU - Whitfield, James Bryan
AU - Garcia, Flávio Roberto Mello
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Dr. Rocco Alfredo Di Mare (in memorian)for photographs frame in Fig. 2 of Cotesia (Braconidae)specimens, Dr. Valmir Antônio Costa of Instituto Biológico de Campinas for Cotesia (Braconidae)genus identification, Dr. Christer Hansson of Lund University, Sweden for hyperparasitoid Eulophidae identification and Dr. Ricardo Harakava of Instituto Biológico de São Paulo for analyses of the COI barcode. JBW would like to thank Tyler Blackwell for producing the photographs in Fig. 1.
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PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - A new species of microgastrine wasp, Cotesia invirae Salgado-Neto & Whitfield, sp. nov., is described from southern Brazil in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. This species is a koinobiont gregarious larval endoparasitoid and spins a common mass of cocoons underneath the host caterpillars of Opsiphanes invirae (Huebner, 1818)(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), feeding on the palm trees Syagrus romanzoffianum (Cham.)Becc.; Livistona chinensis (N.J. Jacquim)R. Brown; Roystonea regia (HBK)O.F. Cook; Archontophoenix cunninghamiana Wendland & Drude (Palmaceae). Morphological, molecular, biological, ecological and geographical data are integrated to describe the new species.
AB - A new species of microgastrine wasp, Cotesia invirae Salgado-Neto & Whitfield, sp. nov., is described from southern Brazil in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. This species is a koinobiont gregarious larval endoparasitoid and spins a common mass of cocoons underneath the host caterpillars of Opsiphanes invirae (Huebner, 1818)(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), feeding on the palm trees Syagrus romanzoffianum (Cham.)Becc.; Livistona chinensis (N.J. Jacquim)R. Brown; Roystonea regia (HBK)O.F. Cook; Archontophoenix cunninghamiana Wendland & Drude (Palmaceae). Morphological, molecular, biological, ecological and geographical data are integrated to describe the new species.
KW - Nymphalidae
KW - Opsiphanes invirae
KW - Palmaceae
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rbe.2019.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.rbe.2019.02.003
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85063239761
SN - 0085-5626
VL - 63
SP - 136
EP - 140
JO - Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
JF - Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
IS - 2
ER -