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 Chelonus sp. Chelonus sp. Delrio et al. 1987, Coscollá 1997Italian distribution of reared parasitoids.

Sardinia: Delrio et al. 1987

Distribution.

Chelonus Panzer, 1806 is a cosmopolitan genus with 190 species in Europe (Fauna Europaea).

Host range.

Like the species of the genus Ascogaster, the Chelonus spp. are koinobiont egg-larval endophagous parasitoids of various groups of microlepidoptera and Noctuidae.

Ecological role.

In Sardinia Delrio et al. (1987) obtained an unidentified species of Chelonus that, along with other species (Elachertus affinis Masi, Agathis sp. and Habrobracon sp.) parasitized 10-12% of the EGVM larvae of the first generation and 5% of the larvae of the second and third generations.

 DelrioGLucianoPProtaR (1987) Researches on grape-vine moths in Sardinia. Proc. Meet. E.C. Experts Group “Integrated pest control in viticulture”, Portoferraio, Italy, 26–28 September, 1985. Balkema, Rotterdam, 57–67. CoscolláR (1997) La polilla del racimo de la vid (Lobesia botrana Den. y Schiff.). Generalitat Valenciana, Consejerfa de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Valencia, Spain, 613 pp.