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Venturia canescens Gravenhorst 1829

Description

Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst, 1829)

(Fig. 8 c)

Angitia compressa Hedwig, 1962: 89; Angitia pyraustae Uchida, 1930: 129; Amorphota ephestia Cameron, 1912: 309; Amorphota ephestiae Cameron, 1912a: 187; Campoplex canescens Gravenhorst, 1829: 555; Campoplex frumentarius Rondani, 1877; Cryptus ductilis Say, 1835: 257; Idechthis oahuensis Ashmead, 1901: 355; Lathrostizus insularis Ashmead, 1901: 355; Limnerium christianae Cheesman, 1928: 191; Limnerium garrulum Cameron, 1905c: 315; Mesochorus australicus Girault, 1925: 541; Nemeritis gracilens Tosquinet, 1896: 414; Omorgus orientalis Schmiedeknecht,1909: 1759.

Diagnosis. Species distinguishable in Reunion by the shape of petiole (generic characteristic): smooth, without glymma and with the sterno-tergal suture on the lateral side.

Description. Wahl (1987).

Biological notes. Twenty-three host records on Pyralidae, Noctuidae, Tortricidae, Gelechiidae, Tineidae and Yponomeutidae.

Comments. Venturia canescens is a well-known model for many parasitoid workers. It is often associated with pests of stored products and widely distributed throughout the world. Its presence in Reunion is therefore not surprising, but the precise origin of the specimens housed at MNHN is unclear.

Distribution records. Reunion (new record). Nearly cosmopolitan, reported in Africa from Maghreb to South Africa.

Material examined. 10Ƥ Reunion, leg. Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, locality and date of collection unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, pp. 1-57 in Zootaxa 3278 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214150

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gravenhorst
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Venturia
Species
canescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Venturia canescens Gravenhorst, 1829 sec. Rousse & Villemant, 2012

References

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