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Extant genera and species of Microgastrinae
Cotesia vestalis (Haliday 1834)
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Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 15
Species With Barcodes: 1
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 11 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 11
Specimens with Barcodes: 13
Species With Barcodes: 1
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[edit]
- ^ "Species Cotesia vestalis (Haliday)". University of Kentucky. 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."
- ^ 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. PMC 3136836. PMID 21270031.
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