Psix saccharicola (Mani)

Ranjbar, Fateme, Jalali, M. Amin, Ziaaddini, Mahdi, Gholamalizade, Zahra & Talamas, Elijah J., 2021, Stink bug egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) associated with pistachio in Iran and description of a new species: Trissolcus darreh Talamas, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87, pp. 291-308 : 291

Psix saccharicola (Mani)

Identification.

Psix saccharicola was identified by the dark brown radicle and more brightly colored scape, metascutellum (dorsellum) with ventral lip smooth, frons without submedian carina, apex of T2 smooth, acetabular field glabrous, and S2 sulci nearly continuous posteriorly.

Material examined.

Rafsanjan , Kerman Prov., Iran, 2019, reared from eggs of Acrosternum arabicum , 15 females, 14 males: FSCA 00093758, 00093769, 00094277, 00094284, 00094301, 00094311, 00094316, 00094323, 00094326, 00094330, 00094343, 00094347, 00094354, 00094362, 00094367, 00094374-00094375, 00094384, 00094386, 00094407, 00094423, 00094433, 00094450, 00094454, 00094458, 00094886, 00095707-00095708; DPI_FSCA 00009835 .

Comments.

Psix saccharicola has also been reported to parasitize the eggs of Acrosternum breviceps and Brachynema germari ( Mohammadpour et al. 2016).