Pentelicus Howard

Manickavasagam, S. & Chaitanya, T. Krishna, 2015, Description of three new species of Pentelicus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from India, with a key to world species, Zootaxa 3946 (2), pp. 221-232 : 222

Pentelicus Howard

Synonymy. See Noyes (2014).

Diagnosis. Female body robust, usually dark brown with metallic green or blue sheen; frontovertex about 1/3 head width, with small or large setigerous punctures; occipital margin sharp, inner eye margins more or less parallel, eye oval, covered with silvery white setae that are clearly longer than diameter of a facet; antennal scape varying from cylindrical to strongly flattened and expanded; pedicel often clearly longer than first funicular segment, rarely subequal in length; funicle 6-segmented; clava 3-segmented, with apex slightly to strongly obliquely truncate; mandible tridentate; dorsum of mesosoma slightly convex, with shallow or deep setigerous punctures; scutellum with median longitudinal ridge, laterally and posteriorly flanged; fore wing often with infuscate pattern, sometimes hyaline; linea calva anteriorly open, posteriorly interrupted by few lines of setae; filum spinosum present; parastigma not curved down; marginal vein punctiform or little longer than wide; stigmal vein slightly to clearly longer than postmarginal vein; a naked hyaline streak connecting postmarginal and stigmal vein ( Figs 5 , 10 , 16 ); gaster about as long as mesosoma; cercal plates located in basal half of gaster; hypopygium reaching or not reaching apex of gaster; ovipositor not or hardly exserted.

Comments. Pentelicus can be differentiated from other encyrtid genera using the keys given by Noyes (1980) for the Neotropical region (as Hemaenasius Ashmead ), Noyes & Hayat (1984) for Indo-pacific region, Noyes et al. (1997) for Nearctic region, and Hayat (2006) for India.

Figures

FIGURES 4 − 6. Pentelicus funiculatus sp. nov., ♀ holotype: 4, dorsal view of nota; 5, fore wing; 6, ovipositor.

FIGURES 10 − 12. Pentelicus punctatus sp. nov., ♀ paratype: 10, fore wing; 11, dorsal view of nota; 12, ovipositor.

FIGURES 16 − 18. Pentelicus depunctatus sp. nov., ♀ paratype: 16, fore wing; 17, dor sal view of nota; 18, ovipositor.