Looking for braconids specimens...

[Jacques Dubois]

Dear Taxacomers

I've been asked to post this message.
You can reply to villeman at mnhn.fr

Many thanks
J

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For part of our current investigations we would strongly need to borrow from
anyone having them the following parasitoids specimens :

-Males and females of Chelonus inanitus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae,
Cheloninae),possibly identified as such by a specialist or person familiar
with Braconids determination, and for which it should be known that they are
certainly hatched from eggs-larvae of Spodoptera littoralis or of Spodoptera
exigua (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
To manage performing our experiments we are to reach 18 parasitoids
specimens per each sex and per each of the mentioned host-species, thus, in
total, 72 parasitoids specimens; thus, whoever can, is very welcome to
contribute reaching the final amount even by providing only a part of the
necessary specimens. The same applies for the here below numbers of other
parasitoids requested.

-Males and females of Chelonus sp.nr. curvimaculatus, or curvimaculatus
itself (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) such as they should be with
certainty emerged from eggs-larvae of Trichoplusia ni (Heubner)
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) or of Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunder)
(Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Also for these series the numbers we should
reach is minimum 16 parasitoids specimens per each sex and per each
host-species.

-Males and females of Stenobracon (Euvipio) unifasciatus (Brullé,1846)
comb.nov. (van Achterberg & Polaszek, Zool.Verh. 304,1996) (Hymenoptera,
Braconidae, Braconinae) emerged with certainty from : Busseola fusca ,or
from Sesamia calamistis (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), or from Chilo partellus
(Lepidoptera, Crambidae). Numbers needed of such parasitoids should reach 20
per each sex and per each mentioned host-species.

For anyone willing to help us by borrowing the above material it is
important being aware that, due to the kind of research we are involved in,
the possible borrowed parasitoids specimens will undergo the cutting of at
least one of the fore wing (however, the cut fore wing will, of course, be
returned undamaged and sticked on card together with the specimen which it
belonged to).  

G. Simbolotti and C. Villemant





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