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OCCURRENCE OF COTESIA RUBECULA (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE) IN QUEBEC, 30 YEARS AFTER ITS INTRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Claude Godin  and
Guy Boivin
Claude Godin
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada H9X 3V9
Guy Boivin*
Affiliation:
Horticultural Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 430 Boulevard Gouin, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada J3B 3E6
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2 Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
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During a study on the parasitoids of the imported cabbageworm, Artogeia rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), undertaken in 1993 and 1994, we recovered Cotesia rubecula (Marshall) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for the first time in Quebec, Canada. Samples were taken from pesticide-free plots of cabbage, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts located at Ste-Clotilde (45°09′N, 73°41′W) and L'Acadie, Quebec (45°18′N, 73°21′W), as described by Godin and Boivin (1998). In addition, survival of diapausing C. rubecula was evaluated after a 5-month incubation at 4°C (Godin 1997). Both A. rapae and C. rubecula are introduced species and originate most likely from Europe (Richards 1940). Artogeia rapae was discovered in 1860 in Quebec (Harcourt 1963), and C. rubecula was first reported in 1963 in British Columbia (Wilkinson 1966).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 130 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 733 - 734
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1998

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