Arescon enocki (Subba Rao & Kaur, 1959)

V. Triapitsyn, Serguei, Adachi-Hagimori, Tetsuya, F. Rugman-Jones, Paul, Barry, Adema, Abe, Aoba, Matsuo, Kazunori & Ohno, Kazuro, 2019, Egg parasitoids of the tea green leafhopper Empoascaonukii (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) in Japan, with description of a new species of Anagrus (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), ZooKeys 836, pp. 93-112 : 99-100

Arescon enocki (Subba Rao & Kaur, 1959)

Neurotes enocki Subba Rao & Kaur, 1959: 233 (illustrations), 235-237, 238 (key). Type locality: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India. Holotype female on slide [National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (NPC)] (not examined).

Arescon enocki (Subba Rao & Kaur): Subba Rao 1966: 187-189 (description of the male, illustration of the female, distribution, host association); Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy 2003: 9 (compared with Arescon zenit Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, distribution, host association); Triapitsyn 2016: 138-140 (key, taxonomic history, redescription, diagnosis, distribution, hosts, comments), 142 (illustrations).

Mymaridae sp. C: Ojima et al. 2010: 38-41 (egg parasitoid of tea green leafhopper and its population dynamics in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan), 44 (photographs).

Distribution.

India and Pakistan ( Triapitsyn 2016), as well as Japan (new record).

Hosts.

Cicadellidae : Amrasca biguttula (Ishida) [= Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Shiraki)] ( Subba Rao 1966 [as Empoasca devastans Distant]) and Jacobiasca lybica (de Bergevin & Zanon) [= Empoasca signata (Haupt)] ( Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy 2003 [as Empoasca libyca [sic] (de Bergevin & Zanon)]; Triapitsyn 2016), as well as Empoasca (Matsumurasca) onukii Matsuda (new record).

Comments.

This species was redescribed and illustrated by Subba Rao (1966) and Triapitsyn (2016) based on specimens from India, so it is quite easily recognizable; particularly, Triapitsyn (2016) provided habitus digital images of both sexes of this species. The photographs of " Mymaridae sp. C" provided in Ojima et al. (2010) leave no doubt that their specimens belonged to both sexes of A. enocki , which thus is newly recorded from the Palaearctic region, where it is definitely an Oriental fauna element in southern Japan where tea is grown. Unfortunately, as their material was lost, we are unable to further illustrate the Japanese specimens of this species.