Parasitism of Plutella xylostella (L.) third and fourth instars was evaluated in a cabbage field in Geneva, NY, in 1999. Over the entire season, average parasitism was 33.6% for third instars and 53.6% for fourth instars, and the main parasitoids were Diadegma insulare (Cresson) and Microplitis plutellae Muesbeck. In the early season, total parasitism was low, and mainly caused by D. insulare. ...

Apical serrations of the hymenopteran ovipositor have been widely postulated to originally constitute adaptations for cutting through hard substrates. Simplifications of the ovipositor tip have occurred in several ichneumonid wasp genera associated with spiders. Despite such reduction in Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), the ovipositor still possesses some apical serrations. Through the ...

Two Japanese species of Jezarotes, J. tamanukii Uchida, 1928, and J. yamatonis Uchida, 1928, are synonymized based on the results of a morphological examination and DNA sequence analysis of the mitochondrial COI gene. Jezarotes tetragonis Lee & Lee, 2009, from Korea is also synonymized with J. tamanukii. The key to the world's species of Jezarotes proposed by Lee & Lee (2009) is updated, includ...

The taxonomy of Neotropical species of Stauropoctonus is reviewed, with redescriptions of S. bicarinatus and S. excarinatus, the description of four new Brazilian species, S. amazonensis sp. n., S. leotacilioi sp. n., S. michelle sp. n., and S. rectus sp. n., and for the first time with a detailed study of the male genitalia of the genus. Additionally, we provide a key to the world Stauropocton...

Three Japanese species of the genus Arotes Gravenhorst, 1829 are revised. A new species, A. japonicus Ito & Watanabe, sp. nov., is described from the four main islands of Japan. This species can easily be distinguished from congeneric species by the black body without yellow markings and the entirely black hind tibia. Arotes sugiharai Uchida, 1934 is newly recorded from the islands of Kyushu an...

A new species of the genus Lethades Davis, 1897 (Ctenopelmatinae: Pionini), Lethades orientalis Reshchikov & Xu, sp. n., collected in Heishiding Nature Reserve in Guangdong Province, China, is described. This is new record of the genus from China and for the Oriental region also. The species can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by its black metasoma, the presence of an areol...

The current study aimed to determine parasitoids of Yponomeuta malinellus Zeller, 1838 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) in apple trees the Çoruh Valley, Erzurum Province, Türkiye during 2019-2020 summer. associated with Y. were reared a laboratory, total 137 individual emerging from family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Among identified species Trieces facialis (Thomson, 1887), Itoplectis tunetana (S...