Psyttalia makii (Sonan, 1932)

Wu, Qiong, Achterberg, Cornelis van, Tan, Jiang-Li & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2016, Review of the East Palaearctic and North Oriental Psyttalia Walker, with the description of three new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Opiinae), ZooKeys 629, pp. 103-151 : 128

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Psyttalia makii (Sonan, 1932)

Opius makii Sonan, 1932: 68-69; Wharton and Gilstrap 1983: 739.

Psyttalia makii : Wharton, 1997: 23.

Comparative diagnosis.

Very similar to Psyttalia fletcheri because of the short vein 2-SR+M of fore wing (about twice as long as wide) and the strongly curved vein m-cu of fore wing. Psyttalia makii has vein r of fore wing about 0.8 times as long as vein 2-SR (about as long as vein 2-SR in Psyttalia fletcheri ) and vein 1-CU1 of fore wing about as long as vein cu-a (at most 0.7 times as long as vein cu-a).

Distribution.

China (Taiwan, type locality); Indonesia (Java); Malaysia (Peninsular), Philippines (Mindanao); Thailand; U.S.A. (Hawaii, introduced but not retrieved).

Biology.

Parasitoid of Tephritidae : mainly reported from Bactrocera species ( Yu et al. 2012).