TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the New World species of Microplitis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) attacking Sphingidae (Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea)
AU - Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri
AU - Tomlinson, Sloan
AU - Jaffe, Samuel
AU - Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina
AU - Whitfield, James B.
AU - Janzen, Daniel H.
AU - Hallwachs, Winifred
AU - Latibari, Minoo Heidari
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Microplitis Foerster is a highly diverse and cosmopolitan genus within Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae). Microplitis ceratomiae Riley, a widely distributed North American species, exclusively attacks sphingid caterpillars. In this paper, M. ceratomiae is reported parasitizing a caterpillar of Sphinx poecila Stephens (Sphingidae) which was collected feeding on Spiraea alba Du Roi (Rosaceae), a species of white meadowsweet native to the wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America. Here, we report and describe this new host-parasitoid-food plant association in southern New Hampshire, and include a distribution map for the species. Biological, ecological and phylogenetic analyses, and an identification key for the nine known species of Microplitis that attack sphingids in the New World are provided.
AB - Microplitis Foerster is a highly diverse and cosmopolitan genus within Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae). Microplitis ceratomiae Riley, a widely distributed North American species, exclusively attacks sphingid caterpillars. In this paper, M. ceratomiae is reported parasitizing a caterpillar of Sphinx poecila Stephens (Sphingidae) which was collected feeding on Spiraea alba Du Roi (Rosaceae), a species of white meadowsweet native to the wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America. Here, we report and describe this new host-parasitoid-food plant association in southern New Hampshire, and include a distribution map for the species. Biological, ecological and phylogenetic analyses, and an identification key for the nine known species of Microplitis that attack sphingids in the New World are provided.
KW - Host-parasitoid-food plant associations
KW - Nearctic
KW - Neotropical
KW - Sphingidae
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1163/1876312X-bja10026
DO - 10.1163/1876312X-bja10026
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85122983643
SN - 1399-560X
VL - 1908
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Insect Systematics and Evolution
JF - Insect Systematics and Evolution
IS - 2
ER -