Cotesia vestalis Haliday 1834

• Main Authors: Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan, Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Braconidae; Cotesia; Cotesia vestalis; Argentina; New Zealand; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6097299; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6097299

Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834) Distribution in Iran. Alborz (Golizadeh et al. 2007 as C. plutellae), East Azarbaijan (Rastegar et al. 2012 as C. plutellae), Isfahan (Afiunizadeh Isfahani and Karimzadeh Isfahani 2010 as C. plutellae; Ghahari et al. 2011 c as C. plutellae), Tehran (Hassanshahi et al. 2012 a, b as C. plutellae). Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde Islands, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, USA, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Australia, Sakhalin (Shenefelt 1972), Réunion (Rousse & Gupta 2013), Host records. C. plutellae is the most efficient parasitoid of diamondback moth in almost regions of the world (Hirashima et al. 1989; Okine et al. 1998; Liu et al. 2000; Manyangirwa et al. 2009). Larval parasitoid of Plutella xylostella (Golizadeh et al. 2007; Afiunizadeh Isfahani and Karimzadeh Isfahani 2010; Hassanshahi et al. 2012 a, b; Yu et al. 2012). The effect of host plant resistance on foraging behaviour and parasitism success of C. plutellae was studied by Karimzadeh et al. (2004). In Vietnam, it has been reported from the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (Long and Belokobylskij 2003; Yu et al. 2012). Also, it has been reported from Plutella xylostella, Aglais urtacae, Pieris rapae, P. brassicae, Anthocaris cardamines, Cucullia chamomillae, Spilosema urtacae, Malacosoma castrensis, Ocnogyna boetica, Thaumetopoea herculeana, Agdistis bennetii, Hyphantria cunea (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Oeobia verbascali, Cucullia verbascae, Orgyia sp. near antique (Shenefelt 1972). ...