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Parasitoids of Heterogynis Rambur (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea, Heterogynidae)

Žikić Vladimir (Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology, Niš)
Stanković Saša S. (Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology, Niš)
Tschorsnig Hans-Peter (Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany)
León Yeray Monasterio (Asociación Española para la Protección de las Mariposas y su Medio (ZERYNTHIA) Madre de Dios, La Rioja, Spain)
de Freina Josef J. (Museum Witt, Munchen, Germany)

Nine parasitoids of the moth genus Heterogynis are presented: six species of Hymenoptera from the families Chalcididae, Eulophidae and Ichneumonidae (Agrothereutes hospes (Tschek), Baryscapus endemus (Walker), Brachymeria inermis (Fonscolombe), Diplazon laetatorius (F.), Itoplectis maculator (F.) and Trichomalopsis heterogynidis Graham), and three Diptera, family Tachinidae (Compsilura concinnata (Meigen), Exorista segregata (Rondani) and Phryxe hirta (Bigot)). Two of these species, Trichomalopsis heterogynidis and Phryxe hirta, are oligophagous parasitoids specialized on the genus Heterogynis. We also identified two newly recorded parasitoids of Heterogynis: Brachymeria inermis (Chalcididae) and Diplazon laetatorius (Ichneumonidae).

Keywords: Heterogynis, parasitoids, Chalcidoidea, Ichneumonidae, Tachinidae.

Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. III43001