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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Microgastrinae » Cotesia

Genus Cotesia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References

NJ Caterpillar with eggs? - Cotesia congregata

Tobacco Hornworm with Cocoons? Eggs? on its Back - Cotesia congregata

Braconid Wasp Cocoons - Cotesia congregata

Microgastrinae larvae preparing to pupate - Cotesia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)

Family Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)

Subfamily Microgastrinae

Genus Cotesia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Microgaster, Apanteles in part, Cotesia Cameron

Numbers

Nearctica lists 77 species.

Identification

Wrinkled propodeum.

Food

Hosts: Armyworm, bollworm, cabbage looper, cabbageworm, celery looper, corn earworm, cutworm, diamondback moth, gypsy moth, hornworm, stem borer, tobacco budworm, webworm.

Life Cycle

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Larvae that build their cocoons in late winter will overwinter as larvae and pupate in the spring of the following year (Fulton BB. 1940. The hornworm parasite, Apanteles congregatus (Say) and the hyperparasite, Hypopteromalus tabacum (Fitch). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 33: 231-244.)

Adult female Cotesia marginiventris must locate caterpillars to parasitize before the end of the host's second instar.

Remarks

Two species have been introduced to combat the cabbageworm (Pieris rapae), C. glomerata and C. rubecula, (Florida Entomologist.

Internet References

U. of Kentucky

OISAT.org

University of Florida. Cotesia marginiventris.

Preliminary evolutionary relationships of the genus Cotesia

NCSU.

Preliminary evolutionary relationships within the genus Cotesia. Systematic Entomology. PDF document

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 21 July, 2007 - 4:46pm
Additional contributions by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, Arturo Santos
Last updated 2 December, 2021 - 2:32pm

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