Encarsia aleurodici (Girault, 1916)

Myartseva, Svetlana Nikolaevna, Evans, Gregory Allyn & Coronado-Blanco, Juana Maria, 2014, The Encarsia noyesi species-group (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) in the Neotropical region, with a key and description of the male of E. andrewi from Mexico, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 39, pp. 33-46 : 36-38

Encarsia aleurodici (Girault, 1916)

Coccophagus aleurodici Girault, 1916: 401. Syntype females and male. Trinidad: British West Indies, xii.1914, F. W. Urich, ex. Aleurodicus on Theobroma bicolor , in USNM.

Prospaltella aleurodici (Girault); Compere 1931: 11.

Dirphys aleurodici (Girault); Hayat 1989: 59.

Encarsiella aleurodici (Girault); Viggiani 1986: 59.

Encarsia aleurodici (Girault); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007: 81.

Diagnosis.

This species was redescribed by Viggiani (1986) and Polaszek and Hayat (1992). Female: body entirely dark brown. Fore wing hyaline. Legs dark brown except as follow: distal half of femur and tibia of fore leg, distal half of tibia of mid leg pale, hind tibia brown-yellow, all tarsi pale. Antennal (Fig. 1 ) radicle, pedicel, first segment of funicle and club dark brown, scape light yellow with brown dorsal margin of distal half, second segment pale brown, third segment yellow. Third valvula pale yellow. Mouth fossa narrower than width of frontovertex at front ocellus. Mid lobe of mesoscutum, scutellum and axillae with strong imbricate/reticulate sculpture. Ovipositor about as long as mid tibia. Male with pedicel of antenna (Fig. 2 ) longer than wide and slightly shorter than first funicle segment.

Distribution.

Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago ( Noyes 2013).

Hosts.

Aleurodicus sp., A. capiangae Bondar, A. cocois (Curtis), A. dispersus Russell.

Comments.

Notes on the biology of A. capiangae (host selection, oviposition) were published by Mound (1961). In 1966, this parasitoid was introduced into Brazil from Trinidad against Aleurodicus cocois ( Carvalho et al. 1971).

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Antennae of Encarsia spp.: 1 Encarsia aleurodici, female 2 male 3 Encarsia andrewi, female 4 male 5 Encarsia magniclava, female 6 Encarsia narroi, female.