Encarsia andrewi Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2008

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 : 38-39

Encarsia andrewi Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2008

Encarsiella polaszeki Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2004: 229. Holotype female. Mexico: Tamaulipas, Jaumave, 30.IV.2000, S. Myartseva, ex. Aleurodicinae , in UCRC.

Encarsia polaszeki (Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2004); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007: 81.

Encarsia andrewi Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2008: 67, previous name preoccupied by Encarsia polaszeki Evans, 1997.

Diagnosis.

Female: head yellow, frontovertex orange. Antenna (Fig. 3 ) yellow, first and second segments of club brown, pedicel and first segment of funicle infuscate. Mesosoma yellow, pronotum, mid lobe of mesoscutum and axillae dark orange or fuscous. Legs light yellow. Fore wings infuscate below marginal vein. Gaster dark brown, third valvula light yellow. Eye more than 1.5 times as long as cheek. Antennal scape 4.0-4.2 times as long as wide, pedicel 1.7 times as long as wide, segments of funicle about twice as long as wide each, club slightly shorter than funicle. All flagellar segments with longitudinal sensilla. Fore wing twice as long as wide. Mid tibial spur 0.8 times as long as basitarsus. Ovipositor exserted, 1.2 times as long as mid tibia, third valvula 0.7 times as long as second valvifer.

Male (first description). Length of body: 0.7 mm. Head coloration as in female, antenna uniformly dark yellow with sensilla brown. Mesosoma dark brown, side lobes yellow with dark spot apically, scutellum light brown laterally and yellow medially. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow; hind coxa, femur and base of tibia infuscate. Gaster brownish black. Eye 1.6 times as long as cheek. Antennal scape 4.0 times as long as wide, pedicel very slightly longer than wide (15:13). First segment of funicle slightly shorter than second segment (6:7) and about 3 times as long as wide; second to sixth segments about 4 times as long as wide each. Club not expressed (Fig. 4 ). All flagellar segments with 4 linear sensilla each. Fore wing 2.4-2.7 times as long as wide, base with 4 setae, marginal vein with 8-9 setae along anterior margin. Hind wing 8.0 times as long as maximum width of wing, its marginal fringe 0.8 times as long as wing width. Genitalia 0.8 times as long as mid tibia.

Material.

Mexico: Tamaulipas, Altamira, ex Aleurodicus dugesii Cockerell on epiphyte plant Struthanthus sp. ( Loranthaceae ) on unknown tree, 4 males, 23.V.2013 (coll. E. Ruíz-Cancino).

Distribution.

Mexico ( Querétaro, Tamaulipas).

Hosts.

Aleurodicinae unspecified sp. (possibly Aleurodicus sp.), Aleurodicus dugesii Cockerell. First record of epiphyte plant Struthanthus sp. as host for A. dugesii .

Comments.

A new name Encarsia andrewi nom. nov. was proposed by Myartseva et al. (2008) for E. polaszeki ( Myartseva and Coronado-Blanco 2004), which was preoccupied by E. polaszeki Evans, 1997, a species described from Brazil.

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.