Cotesia vestalis

Cotesia vestalis
Cotesia vestalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Braconidae
Subfamily: Microgastrinae
Genus: Cotesia
Species: C. vestalis
Binomial name
Cotesia vestalis
(Haliday, 1834)
Synonyms [1]

Cotesia plutellae (Kurdjumov, 1912)

Cotesia vestalis is a parasitoid wasp that appears to be able to detect volatile organic compounds emitted by the plant Brassica oleracea in response to herbivore damage, such as would be caused (for example) by heavy infestation with the wasp's host caterpillar Plutella xylostella.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Species Cotesia vestalis (Haliday)". University of Kentucky. http://www.uky.edu/~mjshar0/genera/Cotesia/vestalis.htm. Retrieved 8 August 2011. "Recently, Shaw (2003) validated the name C. vestalis as the senior synonym of C. plutellae (Kurdjumov); therefore any prior literature referring to this species will use the name C. plutellae." 
  2. ^ Robbie D. Girling, Alex Stewart-Jones, Julie Dherbecourt, Joanna T. Staley, Denis J. Wright & Guy M. Poppy (2011). "Parasitoids select plants more heavily infested with their caterpillar hosts: a new approach to aid interpretation of plant headspace volatiles". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1718): 2646–2653. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2725. PMID 21270031. 

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