Encarsia taciti (Girault)

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew, 2007, The Australian species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Journal of Natural History 41 (33 - 36), pp. 2099-2265 : 2244-2245

87. Encarsia taciti (Girault)

( Figures 278, 279 ) Coccophagus taciti Girault 1930 [432], p 3[272]. Holotype ♀, Australia, Queensland,

Brisbane, Mt Cootha [5Coot-tha], 13 March 1929 (QMBA, type no. T. 4011, examined). Coccophagus taciti Girault : Dahms 1986, p 576. Encarsia taciti (Girault) : Viggiani 1986, p 75. Change of combination.

Redescription (holotype)

Female. Colour: head yellow, face and posterior head brown. Mesosoma yellow except pronotum, axillae, mesopleuron, scutellum dark brown. Gaster dark brown except apex. Antenna brown. Fore wing hyaline with dark band behind marginal vein. Legs yellow, hind coxa and femur brown.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Clava longer than funicle, F6 conical. Pedicel distinctly longer than F1. F1 slightly longer than broad, subequal in length to F2 and shorter than F3. F3 broader than F1 and F2. Scutellar sensilla rather closely placed, approximately three times the width of sensillum. Fore wing about 3.1 times as long as width of disc, sparsely setose. Marginal fringe 0.60 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with three setae. Marginal vein anteriorly with five setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia subequal in length to corresponding basitarsus. Ovipositor longer than midtibia (1.33) and about 1.2 times as long as clava. Third valvula about 0.4 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. E. inquirenda group sensu Hayat (1989a).

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Figures

Figures 278, 279. Encarsia taciti (Girault), holotype female. (278) Overall view of type specimen. (279) Mesosoma.