A new species of Glyptapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) within Macrobrochis gigas (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiidae) in Fujian, China
The south-east coastal area of Fujian, China, belongs to the Oriental Realm, and is characterized by a high insect species richness. In this work, a new species of Hymenopteran parasitoid, Liang & Song, found in Jinjiang within hosts of caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), is described and ill...
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Published in | ZooKeys Vol. 913; pp. 127 - 139 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Bulgaria
Pensoft Publishers
19.02.2020
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Summary: | The south-east coastal area of Fujian, China, belongs to the Oriental Realm, and is characterized by a high insect species richness. In this work, a new species of Hymenopteran parasitoid,
Liang & Song,
found in Jinjiang within hosts of caterpillars
(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), is described and illustrated, with differences from similar species. Additionally, we presumed that both parasitoid and host species play very important role in the coevolution and tritrophic interaction between plants, phytophagous insects, and their parasitoids, because these insects probably broke the sporangia and made contributions to their colonization, or some spores were spread for long distances by adult moths after their emergence, or some parasitoids were attracted by the eggs and larvae of these caterpillars, which was also thought to be helpful to spread of spores. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Academic editor: J. Fernandez-Triana |
ISSN: | 1313-2989 1313-2970 |
DOI: | 10.3897/zookeys.913.46646 |