Psyllaephagus belanensis ( Hoffer, 1963 )

Jerinić-Prodanović, Dušanka, Mihajlović, Ljubodrag & Stojanović, Aleksandar, 2019, Parasitoids of jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea, Hemiptera) from the family Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in Serbia, Zootaxa 4577 (1), pp. 29-50 : 38

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.1.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5922266

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scientific name

Psyllaephagus belanensis ( Hoffer, 1963 )
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Psyllaephagus belanensis ( Hoffer, 1963) View in CoL

( Figs. 28–33 View FIGURES 28–39 )

Material examined. Heterotrioza chenopodii (Reuter) , from Atriplex oblongifolia W. et K., Radenković, 31.viii.2003. ex pupa 14♀♀ 8♂♂; Zemun, Kvantaš , 03.vii.2003. ex pupa 3♀♀ 1♂ ; Zrenjanin, 18.vii.2003. ex pupa 6♀♀ 1♂ . Heterotrioza chenopodii , from Atriplex sp., Đala , 08.viii.2005. ex pupa 1♀ 1♂ .

Trophic status. Parasitoid of psyllids (Noyes 2017).

Hosts. Eumetoecus kochiae (Horváth) on Kochia prostrata ( Trjapitzin 1989; Noyes 2017) and Diaphorina citri Kuwayama ( Fallahzadeh et al. 2016) .

Distribution. Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia ( Trjapitzin 1989; Fallahzadeh et al. 2016).

Diagnosis. Scape brown with metallic reflections. Pedicel dark on the base. Antenna yellowish brown. Scutellum bronze purple or golden green colored with bronze sheen on the top. Legs yellow, all coxae dark, metafemur brown. Clava as long as 4 flagellar segments. Scape as long as the first two flagellar segments. Flagellar segments 1 – 2 as long as wide (slightly longer than wide), 3 – 5 square, flagellar segment 6 slightly wider than long. Ocelli form a right triangle. The specimens match the description by Hoffer (1963) and Trjapitzin (1989).

Comments. New record for Serbia.

Psyllaephagus belanensis View in CoL was reared from Heterotrioza chenopodii View in CoL from Atriplex oblongifolia View in CoL , while in the literature it was recorded from Eumetoecus kochiae (Noeys 2017) and Diaphorina citri Kuwayama ( Fallahzadeh et al. 2016) . Here, Psyllaephagus belanensis View in CoL is recorded in association with Heterotrioza chenopodii View in CoL for the first time ( Table 2).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

Genus

Psyllaephagus

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