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Aleiodes testaceus
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Description
Aleiodes testaceus (Telenga, 1941)
Material examined: MALTA, Buskett, 24. v.2014, 1 ♀, emerged from? Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Haworth) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) larva feeding on Quercus ilex, MZ, DMC [parasitoid and host determined by Mark Shaw].
Notes: This species was previously recorded from Malta by Papp (2015) based on 2♀♀ without host data. It is a parasitoid of small Geometridae (Eupithecia and close relatives) associated with flowers, especially of trees such as Quercus and shrubby plants, but including field layer plants (van Achterberg & Shaw, 2016).
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 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2593032
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Telenga
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Braconidae
- Genus
- Aleiodes
- Species
- testaceus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aleiodes testaceus (Telenga, 1941) sec. Mifsud, Farrugia & Shaw, 2019
References
- Papp, J. (2015) First contribution to the knowledge of the braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Malta. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 7, 93 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.17387 / BULLENTSOCMALTA. 2015.07
- Achterberg, C. van & Shaw, M. R (2016) Revision of the western Palaearctic species of Aleiodes Wesmael (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae). Part 1: Introduction, key to species groups, outlying distinctive species, and revisionary notes on some further species. ZooKeys, 639, 1 - 164. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 639.10893