Adelencyrtus coxalis Hayat, Alam & Agarwal

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7. Adelencyrtus coxalis Hayat, Alam & Agarwal

Adelencyrtus coxalis Hayat, Alam & Agarwal, 1975: 78 −80. Holotype Ψ (BMNH, examined), India. Adelencyrtus coxalis ; Hayat, 2006: 105, 107.

Description. Female. Body length about 1.0 mm. Body dark brown with green or bluish-green sheen; antenna generally yellow except pedicel dorsally dark brown, calva brownish-yellow; fore wing hyaline; all legs yellow except mid coxa basally dark brown.

Head. Frontoverex nearly 1/4 head width; ocelli arranged in an angle of about 60º; posterior ocellus nearly touching inner eye margin, separated from occipital margin by 3 × its own diameter; antennal scape about 4 × as long as broad; F1 and F2 transverse and subequal in size, distinctly smaller than F3; F3 and F4 slightly wider than long; F5 and F6 about as long as wide; clava nearly as long as funicle; mandible quadridentate ( Hayat et al. 1975, fig. 189).

Thorax. Fore wing about 2.6 × as long as broad; marginal vein long, about 3× as long as broad; postmarginal vein about half as long as marginal vein; stigmal vein about as long as postmarginal vein.

Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths slightly exserted, by 1/5−1/6 gaster length.

Relative measurements. MT 36, OL 56, GL 16.

Male. See Hayat et al. (1975).

Host. Pinnaspis strachani (Homoptera: Diaspididae ) ( Hayat et al. 1975).

Distribution. China (new record), India.

Type material examined. INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, 24.i.1967, ex. Pinnaspis strachani , on Murraya koenigii, M. Hayat (holotype Ψ, BMNH).

Non-type material examined. CHINA: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 13.xi.2002, coll. W.Q. Zhen (1 Ψ).