Microplitis mandibularis

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Microplitis mandibularis
Microplitis mandibularis 6b.jpg
Microplitis mandibularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Braconidae
Subfamily:
Microgastrinae
Genus:
Microplitis
Species:
M. mandibularis
Binomial name
Microplitis mandibularis
Carl Gustav Thomson, 1895
Type species
Microgaster mandibularis
Carl Gustav Thomson, 1895

Microplitis mandibularis (Thomson 1985[1]) (formerly Microgaster mandibularis Thomson, 1895) is a gregarious parasitoid wasp in the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera).

Several eggs are laid in lepidopteran larvae and erupt to spin their cocoons when the caterpillar is in the final instar.  Hosts are moths of the family Noctuidae. Those reported by Güçlü & Özbek[2] include: Conistra vaccinii, Jodia croceago, Lithophane ornitopus, Noctua fimbriata, Xanthia ocellaris, with additional records of host species Lasionycta proxima,[3] and Xylena vetusta.[4]

van Achterberg[5] gives a key for identification of Braconidae from Greenland that includes a description of M. mandibularis, which can be distinguished from related species by its colouration.

Fernandez-Triana et al.[6] report M. mandibularis from: Greenland, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russia (PRI, SAK), Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom. It has additionally been recorded from Romania,[7] Iran,[8] and from Belgium and the Czech Republic.[9]

Microplitis mandibularis
Microplitis mandibularis
Microplitis mandibularis
Microplitis mandibularis
Cocoons of Microplitis mandibularis shortly after emerging from the larva of the Xylena vetusta (Red Sword-grass moth)

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References[]

  1. ^ Thomson, C. G. (1895). "LII. Bidrag till Braconidernas Kannedom". Opuscula Entomologica. 20: 2141–2339.
  2. ^ GÜÇLÜ, Coşkun; ÖZBEK, Hikmet (2011). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Turkey". Journal of Biology & Life Sciences. 2 (2): 1–5.
  3. ^ Koponen, Martti (1992). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Braconidae of Finland (Hymenoptera)". Entomologica Fennica. 8.I: 193–209.
  4. ^ Legg, Colin (2021). "Xylena vetusta larva with Microplitis mandibularis pupae.jpg". wikimedia.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ van Achterberg, Cornelius (2015). "11.4". In Bocher, Jens; Kristensen, Niels P.; Pape, Thomas; Vilhelmsen, Lars (eds.). Braconidae. The Greenland Entomofauna. Leiden: Brill. pp. 212–228.
  6. ^ Fernandez-Triana, J.; Shaw, M.; Boudreault, C.; Beaudin, M.; Broad, G. R. (2020). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1090. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.
  7. ^ Papp, J.; Vas, Z. (2016). "Contributions to the Knowledge of Braconidae Fauna of Sălaj County, Romania (Hymenoptera)" (PDF). Studia Universitatis "Vasile Goldiş", Seria Ştiinţele Vieţii. 26 (1): 141–152.
  8. ^ Najmeh, Samin; Coronado-Blanco, Juana María; Fischer, Maximilian; van Achterberg, Kees; Sakenin, Hamid; Davidian, Elena (2018). "Updated checklist of Iranian Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) with twenty-three new records". Natura Somogyiensis. 32: 21–36. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2018.32.21.
  9. ^ van Achterberg, K. "Microplitis mandibularis (Thomson, 1895)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved April 13, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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