Genus Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Species of economic importance:

Cotesia congregata (Say)	Cotesia flavipes Cameron
Cotesia melanoscela (Ratzeburg)	Cotesia rubecula (Marshall)
Cotesia chilonis (Matsumura)	Cotesia cyaniridis (Riley)
Cotesia electrae (Viereck)	Cotesia flaviconchae(Riley)
Cotesia hesperidivorus (Viereck)	Cotesia kariyai (Watanabe)
Cotesia kazak (Telenga)	Cotesia koebelei (Riley)
Cotesia lunata (Packard)	Cotesia medicaginis(Muesebeck)
Cotesia melitaearum(Wilkinson)	Cotesia murtfeldtae(Ashmead)
Cotesia phobetri(Rohwer)	Cotesia praepotens (Haliday)
Cotesia sesamiae(Cameron)	Cotesia vestalis(Haliday)

Click on one of the above species for detailed information.

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A selection of economically important species of Cotesia and their well-known hosts.

Cotesia species	Common name of host	Scientific name of host
C. autographae (Muesebeck)	soybean looper	Pseudplusia includens.
C. congregata (Riley)	tobacco hornworm	Manduca sexta
C. flaviconchae (Riley)	alfalfa butterfly	Colias eurytheme
C. flavipes Cameron	cereal stem borer	Chilo partellus
C. glomerata (Linnaeus)	imported cabbageworm	Pieris rapae
C. hyphantriae (Riley)	fall webworm	Hyphantria cunea
C. kazak (Telenga)	Old World bollworm	Helicoverpa armigera
C. marginiventris (Cresson)	beet armyworm	Spodoptera exigua
C. melanoscela (Ratzeburg)	gypsy moth	Lymantria dispar
C. orobenae (Forbes)	cross-striped cabbageworm	Evergestis rimosalis
C. plathypenae (Muesebeck)	green cloverworm	Plathypena scabra
C. plutellae (Kurdjumov)	diamondback moth	Plutella xylostella
C. rubecula (Marshall)	imported cabbageworm	Pieris rapae
C. ruficrus (Haliday)	various armyworms (Asia)	Spodoptera spp.
C. xylinus (Say)	variegated cutworm	Peridroma saucia
C. yakutatensis (Ashmead)	alfalfa semilooper	Autographa californica

References

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