AnimaliaHymenopteraBraconidaeScaramozzinoPier LuigiLoniAugustoLucchiAndreaA review of insect parasitoids associated with Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) in Italy. 1. Diptera Tachinidae and Hymenoptera Braconidae (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)Zookeys231201720176476710010.3897/zookeys.647.11098 Ascogaster rufidens Wesmael, 1835 Ascogaster rufidens Silvestri 1912, Boselli 1928, Stellwaag 1928Italian distribution of reared parasitoids.

Campania: Silvestri 1912 (Portici)

Distribution.

This species shows a Palaearctic distribution, being present in Europe (excluding Iberian Peninsula, ex Yugoslavia and Greece), Russia, Far East Russia, and China.

Host range.

Koinobiont endophagous egg-larval parasitoid. The only record is due to Silvestri (1912) that frequently reared it in August from EGVM larvae. Like the previous species, it lives on microlepidoptera, especially Tortricidae.

 SilvestriF (1912) Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli insetti dannosi e dei loro simbionti. III. La Tignoletta dell’uva (Polychrosis botrana Schiff.) con un cenno sulla Tignola dell’uva (Conchylis ambiguella Hb.). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici 6: 246–307. BoselliF (1928) Elenco delle specie d’insetti dannosi e loro parassiti ricordati in Italia dal 1911 al 1925. Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria, R. Istituto Superiore Agrario – Portici, 1–265. StellwaagF (1928) Die Weinbauinsekten der Kulturländer, Lehr- und Handbuch. Verlagsbuchhandlung Paul Parey, Berlin, 884 pp.