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Gelis carbonarius
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Description
Gelis carbonarius (de Stefani, 1884)
Materials examined: MALTA, It-Torri l-Abjad, 25. xii.2005, 1 ♀, captured laying into a case of Coleophora semicinerea Straudinger (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae), MZ, MSC [parasitoid determined by Martin Schwarz; host determined by Michael Zerafa].
Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. Gelis carbonarius has been reported as a parasitoid of Braconidae that are associated with Lepidoptera (Stefanescu et al., 2009; Frago et al., 2012). Gelis carbonarius is probably polyphagous and can be either a primary parasitoid or a pseudohyperparasitoid, similarly to the closely related species Gelis agilis (Fabricius, 1775) (M. Schwarz, pers comm., 2017). Gelis species are idiobiont ectoparasitoids.
Notes
Published as part of Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, pp. 47-60 in Zootaxa 4567 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2593032
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- de Stefani
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Gelis
- Species
- carbonarius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gelis carbonarius (Stefani, 1884) sec. Mifsud, Farrugia & Shaw, 2019
References
- Frago, E., Pujade-Villar, J., Guara, M. & Selfa, J. (2012) Hyperparasitism and seasonal patterns of parasitism as potential causes of low top-down control in Euproctis chrysorrhoea L. (Lymantriidae). Biological Control, 60 (2), 123 - 131. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. biocontrol. 2011.11.013