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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Parasitoids Required

Charles,

The latest British Wildlife magazine (Vol 22, Number 5, June 2011) has an article entitled "The Horse-chestnut Leaf-miner and its parasitoids" by Michael Pocock, Darren Evans, Nigel Straw and Andrew Polaszek.

The article has a pictorial and textual key to parasitoids of the micro-moth Cameraria ohridella and gives information on both how to breed the parasitoids out and on how to identify them.  A request is made within the article for people to send in identifications to the Conker Tree Science Project.

I have checked the Dictionary this morning and have found that over 90% of the parasitoids described and named are currently NOT on the Dictionary - this obviously needs resolving as there is a distinct chance that a decent number of such records will be sent in to both the project and to LRCs, where attempts will be made to add them to copies of Recorder and ultimately the Gateway.

I have not at this moment got the time to list all the species and to look up authors etc. (I am just on my way out) - BUT, I will do so as an addition to this thread later today.

Cheers.

Steve

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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Parasitoids Required

Charles,

The species of parasitoids which attack the Horse-chestnut Leaf-miner (Cameraria ohridella) and which need adding to the NBN Dictionary are as follows:

- Colastes braconius (Haliday, 1833)
- Itoplectus alternans (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Scambus inanis (Schrank, 1802)
- Pediobius saulius (Walker, 1839)
- Neochrysocharis chlorogaster (Erdös, 1966)
- Chrysocharis phryne (Walker, 1839)
- Chrysocharis nephereus (Walker, 1839)
- Chrysocharis pentheus (Walker, 1839)
- Baryscapus nigroviolaceus (Nees, 1834)
- Minotetrastichus frontalis (Nees, 1834)
- Cirrospilus vitattus Walker, 1838
- Cirrospilus diallus Walker, 1838
- Cirrospilus pictus (Nees, 1834)
- Elachertus inunctus Nees, 1834
- Hemiptarsenus ornatus (Nees, 1834)
- Pnigalio mediterraneus Ferrière & Delucchi, 1957
- Pnigalio agraules (Walker, 1839)
- Pnigalio soemius (Walker, 1839)
- Sympiesis sericeicornis (Nees, 1834)

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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Parasitoids Required

Nice list - I am working on this and will get back to you when they are done. :)

Just 1 comment so far - Itoplectis alternans (Gravenhorst, 1829) exists already (TVK NBNSYS0000031075)

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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Parasitoids Required

Thanks Chris - I have just started breeding through this years batch of Horse-chestnut Leaf-miner parasites so these will come in useful.

Sorry about the Itoplectus alternans - I could have sworn it wasn't there when I checked last year - obviously I was wrong and missed it - my apologies.

Cheers and thanks again.

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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner Parasitoids Required

The following have been added here:

Hymenoptera, Braconidae - Colastes Haliday, 1833 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973505
Hymenoptera, Braconidae - Colastes braconius Haliday, 1833 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973511

Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae - Itoplectis alternans (Gravenhorst, 1829) EXISTS NBNSYS0000031075
Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae - Scambus inanis (Schrank, 1802) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973517

Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Pediobius saulius (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973523
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Neochrysocharis chlorogaster (Erdos, 1966) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973529
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Chrysocharis phryne (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973535
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Chrysocharis nephereus (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973541
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Chrysocharis pentheus (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973547
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Baryscapus nigroviolaceus (Nees, 1834) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973553
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Minotetrastichus Kostjukov, 1977 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973559
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Minotetrastichus frontalis (Nees, 1834) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973565
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Cirrospilus vittatus Walker, 1838 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973571
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Cirrospilus diallus Walker, 1838 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973577
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Cirrospilus pictus (Nees, 1834) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973583
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Elachertus Spinola, 1811 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973589
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Elachertus inunctus Nees, 1834 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973595
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Hemiptarsenus ornatus (Nees, 1834) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973601
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Pnigalio mediterraneus Ferrière & Delucchi, 1957 ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973607
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Pnigalio agraules (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973613
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Pnigalio soemius (Walker, 1839) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973619
Hymenoptera, Eulophidae - Sympiesis sericeicornis (Nees, 1834) ADDED TVK NHMSYS0020973625

Thanks! :)

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)