Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) parasitic upon leaf‐mining insects of the orders Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera

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Abstract
Rearing records of fourteen species of Braconidae and thirteen species of Ichneumonidae from leaf‐mining insects of the orders Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera are presented. Braconidae are more abundant and specialized than Ichneumonidae in the parasite faunas of leafminers on both deciduous trees and low‐growing plants. Although seldom comprising a major element in the parasite complex on deciduous trees, Braconidae are sometimes numerically the dominant parasites on low‐growing plants. Apanteles circumscriptus associated with Fagaceae is shown to reproduce thelytokously.