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

Sardinia: Delrio et al. 1987

Host range.

The cosmopolitan genus Agathis Latreille, 1804, according to Yu (1997–2012) includes 162 species, 35 of which recorded in Europe (Fauna Europaea). They live on larvae of various microlepidoptera, especially Gelechioidea, Pyraloidea and Tortricoidea, as solitary koinobiont endoparasitoid. Detailed information on Agathidinae behavior can be found in Shaw and Huddleston (1991).

Ecological role.

In Sardinia Delrio et al. (1987) obtained, by Lobesia botrana feeding on grape, an unidentified species of Agathis which, in association with other species (Elachertus affinis Masi, Chelonus sp. and Habrobracon sp.), parasitized 10-12% of the first generation larvae and 5% of the second and third generation larvae.

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