Encarsia prolata, Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007

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 : 2223-2224

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFF7-8F26-EA93-FD0DFC69FBCB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Encarsia prolata
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

74. Encarsia prolata n. sp.

( Figures 235–237 View Figures 235–237 )

Description

Female. Colour: head and mesosoma yellow, gaster brown. Antenna yellow, clava brown (at least apical segment slightly brown). Fore wing with dark band behind marginal vein. Legs yellow.

Morphology: stemmaticum with transverse, rugosely strigose surface sculpture. Antennal formula 1,1,4,2. Antenna slender, pedicel distinctly shorter than F1 (0.46–0.55). F1 4.0– 4.4 times as long as its maximum width, subequal in length to F2 and F3. Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 0–1, F2: 2, F3:3, F4: 3–4, F5: 2, F6: 2. Midlobe of mesoscutum with (7–)8–10 setae, side lobes with two setae each. Scutellar sensilla widely separated (approximately four to five times the maximum width of a sensillum). Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae smaller than distance between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.5–2.6 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.17–0.25 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two or three setae, marginal vein anteriorly with seven or eight setae. Basal cell with five or six setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia about half as long as the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.52–0.57). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 2, T6: 3, T7 with four setae. Ovipositor slightly shorter or subequal in length to midtibia (0.92–1.00). Third valvula 0.23–0.27 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. Not established.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Aleyrodidae : Dialeurodes sp.

Material examined Queensland: Holotype: ♀, Mossman, 1 September 2001 (P. De Barro), ex Dialeurodes sp.

# 105 ( ANIC). Paratypes : 4♀, same data as holotype ( ANIC, ZSMG) .