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Cotesia marginiventris
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Cotesia marginiventris

Cotesia marginiventris is a species of parasitoid wasp that develops in Noctuidae caterpillars. It can be found in the Americas. The wasp finds caterpillar hosts to rear its young in by detecting the volatiles produced by the plants that the herbivorous caterpillars feed on.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 299831.