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First Nearctic record of Diolcogaster claritibia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with notes on taxonomic status and natural history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2014

Jose Fernandez-Triana ,
Mark R. Shaw ,
Sophie Cardinal ,
Lloyd Dosdall  and
Peter Mason
Jose Fernandez-Triana*
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Centre, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Mark R. Shaw
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, United Kingdom
Sophie Cardinal
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Centre, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Lloyd Dosdall
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5
Peter Mason
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Centre, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: jose.fernandez@agr.gc.ca).
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Abstract

The Microgastrinae wasp Diolcogaster claritibia (Papp, 1959) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is recorded from the Nearctic region (Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario, Canada) for the first time. In spite of some minor morphological and molecular (DNA barcoding) differences, the available data indicate that the European and New World specimens should be considered one species, but more specimens and loci need to be sampled to conclusively determine the phylogeographic history of the species. Diolcogaster claritibia seems to be widely distributed within the Holarctic, and the molecular data suggest that it was recently introduced to North America from Europe.

Type
Systematics & Morphology
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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 146 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 609 - 620
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© Entomological Society of Canada 2014 

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Subject editor: Kevin Floate

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