Affiliation:
1. Research Associate, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, U.K.
Abstract
Cotesia carterocephali sp. nov. is described from a single gregarious brood reared from a posthibernation final instar larva of the hesperiid butterfly Carterocephalus palaemon in Scotland. Details of English rearings of two other Microgastrinae recorded from Britain
for the first time are also given: Distatrix pompelon, gregariously from the erebiid lymantriine Orgyia antiqua (also recorded from the same host in Austria), and Dolichogenidea hemerobiellicida, solitarily from the coleophorid Coleophora hemerobiella (with a record
from possibly the same host in the Netherlands). The non-British Glyptapanteles aletta is recorded as a solitary parasitoid of Limenitis populi in Finland, France and Germany: a previous host record for this parasitoid is regarded as incorrect.
Publisher
Pemberley Books (Publishing)
Subject
Insect Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics