Species Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834)

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• Microgaster ruficrus Haliday, A.H. 1834. Art XXI. Essay on the classification of parasitic Hymenoptera, etc. Entomological Magazine. London 2: 225-259 [253].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, British Isles.
• Apanteles antipoda Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Notes on some New Zealand and Australian parasitic Hymenoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 327-360 [355].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Apanteles manilae Ashmead, W.H. 1904. A list of Hymenoptera of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12: 1-22 [Date published 31/03/1904] [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Luzon, Philippines.
• Apanteles sydneyensis Cameron, P. 1911. On a collection of parasitic Hymenoptera (chiefly bred), made by Mr W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., in New South Wales, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 333-346 [342].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.
• Apanteles narangae Viereck, H.L. 1913. Descriptions of six new genera and twelve new species of Ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44: 639-648 [642].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Taiwan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watanabe, C. 1932. Notes on the Braconidae. III. Apanteles. Insecta Matsumurana 7: 74-102
• Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The phylogenetic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 115: 1-147 [113]

Generic Combinations

• Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834). —
  Mason, W.R.M. 1981. The phylogenetic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 115: 1-147 [113]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Pakistan (via New Zealand).

General References

Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., Miles, M.M., Atkin-Zaldivar, T-C.C., Howe, A.G., Subramaniam, S., Chambers, D.M., Tadle, F.P.J., Adnan, S.M., Sivasubramaniam, V. & Woodward, A. 2024. Hymenopteran parasitoids of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)) in Australia, with the description of five new species in the families Braconidae and Eulophidae. Austral Entomology 63: 136-174 [165, Fig. 15]

Fagan-Jeffries, E.P. & Austin, A.D. 2020. Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 667: 1-70 [45]

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