A solitary endoparasitoid (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) of the severe Buxus pest Cydalima perspectalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in the North Caucasus of Russia

S.A. Belokobylskij & Yu.I. Gninenko

Abstract. A braconid endoparasitoid, Protapanteles mygdonia (Nixon, 1973), of the severe pest of box trees, the moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is re-described and illustrated from the North Caucasus of Russia. This is the first discovery of a native parasitoid of box tree moth in the Western Palaearctic.

Key words: endoparasitoid wasps, invasive pest, Krasnodar Territory, Protapanteles mygdonia, new hosts, redescription

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2016, 25(2): 248–254 ▪ Published in print 27 December 2016

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2016.25.2.248 ▪ Open full article

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