Psyllaephagus fulvipes Erdös, 1957

Jerinić-Prodanović, Dušanka, Mihajlović, Ljubodrag & Stojanović, Aleksandar, 2019, Parasitoids of jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea, Hemiptera) from the family Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in Serbia, Zootaxa 4577 (1), pp. 29-50 : 38

Psyllaephagus fulvipes Erdös, 1957

( Figs. 34 – 36 )

Material examined. Craspedolepta conspersa (Löw) , from Artemisia vulgaris Linnaeus, Surčin-Rimski kanal, 15.viii.2006. ex pupa 1♀ 1♂, 25.vii.2007. ex pupa 3 ♀

Trophic status. Parasitoid of psyllids (Noyes 2017).

Distribution. Hungary ( Trjapitzin 1989; Noyes 2017).

Diagnosis. Body golden green. Antenna brown, scape dark with metallic reflections. Procoxae yellow, meso and metacoxae dark, femur and tibia of all legs light-colored (yellow). Tegula dark on the top. The specimens match the description by Trjapitzin (1989).

Comments. New record for Serbia.

Psyllaephagus fulvipes has so far been recorded from Hungary, without host information ( Trjapitzin 1981; Noyes 2017). Here, Psyllaephagus fulvipes is recorded in association with Craspedolepta conspersa for the first time ( Table 2).

Figures

FIGURES 28–39. 28, Psyllaephagus belanensis (original), habitus; 29, Dorsal view of P. belanensis (original); 30, Sculpture of mesocutum and scutellum, P. belanensis (original); 31, Antenna, ♀ P. belanensis (dorsal) (original); 32, Antenna, ♀ P. belanensis (lateral) (original); 33, Ocelli ♀ P. belanensis (original); 34, Psyllaephagus fulvipes (original); 35, Ocelli and antenna, P. fulvipes (original), 36, Ocelli, ♀ P. fulvipes (original); 37, Dorsal view of Psyllaephagus procerus (original); 38, Antenna, ♀ P. procerus (original); 39, Ocelli, P. procerus (original).