Abstract
The comparative investigation on the larval parasites of two species, Adoxophyes orana FISCHER VON RÖSLERSTAMM and A. fasciata WALSINGHAM, which are so similar that they were identified with a single species for a long time, were made in 1971 and 1972 in Tokushima Pref. where both species occur sympatrically. The common parasites of the both tortricid larvae included Apanteles sp., Bracon adoxophyesi (Hym.: Braconidae), Goniozus japonicus (Hym.: Bethylidae), Campoplex homonae (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) and Pseudoperichaeta insidiosa (Dip.: Tachinidae), of which the last was rare. Rogas sp. (Hym.: Braconidae) and Gelinae sp. (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) emerged only from A. fasciata very rarely. The dominant larval parasites seemed to be Apanteles sp. on the first and second generations of the hosts and Goniozus japonicus on the third generation in Tokushima.
