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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

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

A new species of Cotesia Cameron reared from the hickory horned devil Citheronia regalis and luna moth Actias luna in east Texas

By James B. Whitfield, Robert J. Nuelle Jr, and Robert J. Nuelle III
ZooKeys 740: 35-44, 2018

Full title: A new species of Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) reared from the hickory horned devil, Citheronia regalis, and luna moth, Actias luna, in east Texas

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.740.24226

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 26 August, 2021 - 5:45pm

Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps

By Jose Fernandez-Triana et al.
ZooKeys, 2020

Paper includes a checklist of 2,999 named species with revised generic assignments and photos of representatives of each genus.

Jose Fernandez-Triana, Mark R. Shaw, Caroline Boudreault, Melanie Beaudin, Gavin R. Broad. 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920:1-1089

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 24 March, 2020 - 11:01pm

Braconidae of the Middle East (Hymenoptera): Taxonomy, Distribution, Biology, and Biocontrol Benefits of Parasitoid Wasps 1st Ed

By Neveen S. Gadallah, Hassan Ghahari, & Scott Richard Shaw (eds.)
Academic Press: 612 pp., 2022

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 8 May, 2024 - 2:52am

Key to the New World subfamilies of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)

By Michael Sharkey, Kacie J. Athey, José L. Fernández-Triana, Angélica M. Penteado-Dias, Spencer K. Monckton, Donald L.J. Quicke
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification #49, 2023

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Note: The braconid subfamily Rhyssalinae is misspelled as "Rhyssinae," which is the name of an ichneumonid subfamily.

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 5 May, 2024 - 8:00pm

Classification and Biology of Braconid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

By Shaw MR, Huddleston T
Royal Entomological Society of London, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, volume 7 part 11, 1991

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Vol07_Part11.pdf

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 27 August, 2023 - 3:49pm

Illustrated Key to the Subfamilies of the Braconidae

By Cornelis van Achterberg
Zoologische Verhandelingen, 283(1): 1-189, 1993

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 2 February, 2023 - 1:10am

A revision of the parasitic wasps of the subfamily Braconinae occurring in America north of Mexico

By C.F.W. Muesebeck
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 69 (2642):1-73, 1927

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Also includes Agathidinae under an older definition of Braconinae.

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 2 December, 2022 - 6:30pm

Notes on Braconidae (Hymenoptera) associated with jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) and descriptions of new species

By Paul M. Marsh
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 65(1): 58-67, 1989

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 10 November, 2022 - 4:41am

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