Euplectrus liparidis Ferriere

Figures 36-38

Euplectrus liparidis Ferrière, 1941:43. Holotype female in NHM, examined.

Diagnosis.

Female with frons below level of toruli completely pale, pale area reaching from eye to eye (Fig. 38); midlobe of mesoscutum without median groove or carina (Fig. 37); reticulation on scutellum with elongate meshes (Fig. 37); without groove between dorsellum and scutellum (Fig. 37); female gaster with pale area in anterior part as a round spot about as wide as ½ the width of gaster (Fig. 37).

Hosts.

From larva of Lymantria dispar (L.) ( Erebidae) ( Ferrière 1941). This host is odd as the larvae are hairy, whereas larvae of all other hosts accounted for in this article are naked.

Distribution.

Algeria ( Ferrière 1941), Czech Republic & Italy (Zhu and Huang 2003).

Genetic data.

No specimens of the species were available for genetic analysis.