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Spathius pedestris Wesmael. Thus 1838

Description

Spathius pedestris Wesmael, 1838

Material examined: MALTA, Siggiewi, 3. x.2016, 1 ♀, emerged from Ceratonia siliqua pods infested with larvae of Apomyelois ceratoniae, LF, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host identified by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. This species is probably thelytokous.

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 pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2593032

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Braconidae
Genus
Spathius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wesmael. Thus
Species
pedestris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spathius pedestris Thus, 1838 sec. Mifsud, Farrugia & Shaw, 2019