Cotesia vestalis

Cotesia vestalis is a parasitoid wasp that appears to be able to detect volatile organic compounds emitted by the plant Brassica oleracea in response to herbivore damage, such as would be caused (for example) by heavy infestation with the wasp's host caterpillar Plutella xylostella.^[2]

Cotesia vestalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Genus:	Cotesia
Species:	C. vestalis
Binomial name
Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834)
Synonyms [1]
Cotesia plutellae (Kurdjumov, 1912)

Diseases

Cotesia vestalis suffers from a polydnavirus, Cotesia vestalis bracovirus.^[3]