Microctonus aethiopoides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ichneumonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Ichneumonoidea

Familia: Braconidae
Subfamilia: Euphorinae
Genera: Microctonus
Species: Microctonus aethiopoides

Name

Microctonus aethiopoides Loan, 1975

Holotype female: CNC 13416

Type locality: Sezanne (Marne), France.

References

• Barratt, B.I.P. 2004: Microctonus parasitoids and New Zealand weevils: comparing laboratory estimates of host ranges to realized host ranges. Pp. 103-120 in: Van Driesche, R.G. & Reardon, R. (eds.) Assessing host ranges for parasitoids and predators used for classical biological control: a guide to best practice. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Morgantown, West Virginia. FHTET-2004-03. PDF
• Barratt, B.I.P. et al. 1998: Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of New Zealand agricultural grassland and lucerne as potential non-target hosts of the parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides Loan and Microctonus hyperodae Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 25(1): 47–63. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1998.9518136
• Barratt, B.I.P. et al. 2000: Phenology of native weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand pastures and parasitism by the introduced braconid, Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 27: 93–110. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2000.9518215
• Barratt, B.I.P. et al. 2007: Field parasitism of nontarget weevil species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by the introduced biological control agent Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) over an altitude gradient. Environmental entomology, 36(4): 826–839. DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[826:FPONWS]2.0.CO;2
• Couch, K.M.; Cresswell, A.S.; Barratt, B.I.P.; Evans, A.A. 1997: Implications of host weevil circadian activity for parasitism by Microctonus aethiopoides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). New Zealand plant protection, 50: 227–231. PDF
• Loan, C.C. 1975: A review of Haliday species of Microctonus [Hym.: Braconidae, Euphorinae]. Entomophaga, 20: 31–41. DOI: 10.1007/BF02373448
• McNeill, M.R.; Phillips, C.B.; Goldson, S.L. 1993: Diagnostic characteristics and biology of three Microctonus spp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Euphorinae) parasitoids of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand pasture and lucerne. New Zealand entomologist, 16: 39–44.
• Phillips, C.B.; Emberson, R.M. 1999: Morphological discrimination between first instar larvae of four euphorine parasitoids. BioControl, 44(2): 159–169. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009929427588