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First report of Cotesia vanessae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2014

V.A.D. Hervet ,
H. Murillo ,
J.L. Fernández-Triana ,
M.R. Shaw ,
R.A. Laird  and
K.D. Floate
V.A.D. Hervet*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
H. Murillo
Affiliation:
Sunrite Greenhouses Ltd, 1414 Seacliff Drive, Kingsville, Ontario, Canada N9Y 2M2
J.L. Fernández-Triana
Affiliation:
Canadian National Collection, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
M.R. Shaw
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers St., Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1JF, United Kingdom
R.A. Laird
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
K.D. Floate
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 5403–1st Ave. S., Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
*
2Corresponding author: (e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We report for the first time the occurrence of the well-known Eurasian and north African parasitoid Cotesia vanessae (Reinhard) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in North America. Specimens were reared from Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper) and Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) recovered from several locations in southwestern Ontario, Canada, and detected by DNA sequencing from one Autographa californica (Speyer) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in southern Alberta, Canada.

Type
Biodiversity & Evolution – NOTE
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 146 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 560 - 566
Copyright
© Entomological Society of Canada 2014 

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Subject editor: Véronique Martel

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