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Issue: Vol. 4527 No. 3: 6 Dec. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.6
Page range: 372–380
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A new species and a key to world species of the flavipes species-group of the genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Japan

Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Japan.
Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; Research Fellow (DC), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6.
Hymenoptera Cotesia flavipes species-group Microgastrinae Japan biological control

Abstract

A new species of microgastrine parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Cotesia testacea Fujie, Shimizu & Fernandez-Triana sp. nov., is described from Japan and Korea. It belongs to the flavipes species-group, which now comprises seven described species, most of them economically important as biocontrol agents of cereal and sugarcane stem borer pests worldwide. The new species, currently known from marsh habitats in the Eastern Palaearctic, is morphologically similar and probably related to the Western Palaearctic Cotesia ferruginea. A key to world species of the flavipes species-group is also provided.

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