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Asobara anastrephae

Description

Asobara anastrephae (Muesebeck, 1958)

(Figure 1A)

Diagnosis. Mandibles exondont with three well-developed teeth, notauli incomplete, propodeum with short median carina anteriorly and areola posteriorly, wings hyaline, stigma brown, fore wing (RS+M)b present, 2 nd submarginal cell long 4-sided, 1 st subdiscal cell very weakly defined posteriorly and distally, hind wing with Cu-a and m-cu absent.

Comments. Asobara anastrephae is associated with 10 species of Anastrepha and C. capitata (see Zucchi & Moraes 2008, 2012) in Brazil, but it is not collected frequently.

Notes

Published as part of Marinho, Cláudia F., Costa, Valmir A. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2018, Annotated checklist and illustrated key to braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of economically important fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil, pp. 21-36 in Zootaxa 4527 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2611944

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Muesebeck
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Asobara
Species
anastrephae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Asobara anastrephae (Muesebeck, 1958) sec. Marinho, Costa & Zucchi, 2018

References

  • Muesebeck, C. F. W. (1958) New Neotropical wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 405 - 461. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3389.405
  • Zucchi, R. A. & Moraes, R. C. B. (2008) Fruit flies in Brazil- Anastrepha species their host plants and parasitoids. Updated 16 May 2018. Available from: http: // www. lea. esalq. usp. br / anastrepha / (accessed 23 July 2018)
  • Zucchi, R. A. & Moraes, R. C. B. (2012) Fruit flies in Brazil-Hosts and parasitoids of the Mediterranean fruit fly. Updated 18 January 2018. Available from: http: // www. lea. esalq. usp. br / ceratitis / (accessed 23 July 2018)