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fraternus (Fitch)

Antenna lateral, female.

Head frontal, female.

Vertex, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female.

Thoracic dorsum, female lectotype.

Propodeum dorsal, female.

Gaster dorsal, female.

Originally described in

Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 15:449.

Diagnosis

Body including gastral tergites 1-6 bright golden-green; mesoscutum with anterior 1/3 with raised and weak reticulation, posterior 2/3 with engraved and weak reticulation, notauli as narrow and distinct grooves in median 1/3; scutellum with lateral mesh-rows short and straight. Similar to cupreus but with head distinctly transverse (0.7X as high as wide). See also cockerelli.

Distribution

USA (Florida, New York).

Biology

Gregarious endoparasitoid on Orgyia leucostigma (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae); Euplectrus comstockii Howard (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae); from an unidentified tineid larva (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) living in the woolly galls of Andricus flocci Walsh (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae).

Similar species in Lucid key

bryoscapus, but fraternus with thoracic dorsum bright golden-green.

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Depository of primary type

United States NationalMuseum of Natural History (USNM), Washington , D.C.