Euplectrus phthorimaeae Ferriere

Figures 39-41

Euplectrus phthorimaeae Ferrière, 1941:42-43. Holotype female in NHM, examined.

Diagnosis.

Female with frons below level of toruli with pale area not extending laterally to the eye but with a wide dark stripe between pale area and eye (Fig. 41); midline on midlobe of mesoscutum indicated by a median groove in posterior ½ (Fig. 40); posterior part of midlobe of mesoscutum narrow as in E. bicolor; scutellum with isodiametric meshes in posterior part (Fig. 40).

Hosts .

Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) ( Gelechiidae) ( Ferrière 1941).

Distribution.

Cyprus & Israel ( Ferrière 1941).

Genetic data.

No specimens of the species were available for genetic analysis.