HOST RANGES OF PARASITOIDS (HYMENOPTERA, BRACONIDAE AND ICHNEUMONIDAE) REARED FROM EPERMENIA-CHAEROPHYLLELLA (GOEZE) (LEPIDOPTERA, EPERMENIIDAE) IN BRITAIN, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF TRICLISTUS (ICHNEUMONIDAE)

Citation
Mr. Shaw et Jp. Aeschlimann, HOST RANGES OF PARASITOIDS (HYMENOPTERA, BRACONIDAE AND ICHNEUMONIDAE) REARED FROM EPERMENIA-CHAEROPHYLLELLA (GOEZE) (LEPIDOPTERA, EPERMENIIDAE) IN BRITAIN, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF TRICLISTUS (ICHNEUMONIDAE), Journal of Natural History, 28(3), 1994, pp. 619-629
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00222933
Volume
28
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
619 - 629
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2933(1994)28:3<619:HROP(B>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The complex of parasitoids attacking larval stages of Epermenia chaero phyllella in Britain is outlined, and the host range of each of the sp ecies recorded (three braconids and four ichneumonids) is discussed. ' Ecological' factors, such as die behavioural similarity of unrelated h osts during the vulnerable parts of their life histories, seem to have been important in the evolution of the host associations of several o f these parasitoids, even though they are koinobionts. A new species, Triclistus epermeniae Shaw and Aeschlimann, is described.