Representative British Braconidae: Doryctinae, Meteorinae and Microgastrinae
Figure 2a.
Dendrosoter protuberans (Nees) (Doryctinae) male (courtesy of P. Adams)
Figure 2b.
Zele albiditarsus Curtis (Meteorinae) female (courtesy of E. Brosens)
Figure 2c.
Cotesia affinis (Nees) (Microgastrinae) larvae emerging from their Laothoe populi (L.) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) host and then spinning cocoons (courtesy of M. Boddington)
Figure 2d.
Cotesia gonopterygis (Marshall) (Microgastrinae) overwintering cocoon mass ex Gonepteryx rhamni (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) (M.R. Shaw)