Apocharips Fergusson, 1986

Ferrer-Suay, Mar, elfa, Jesus & Pujade-Villar, Juli, 2019, Keys to world Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae), ZooKeys 822, pp. 79-139 : 79

Apocharips Fergusson, 1986

Apocharips Fergusson, 1986: 16. Type: Allotria xanthocephala Thomson, 1862.

General features.

Head. Triangular, higher than it is wide, smooth and shiny. Setae present below and between toruli with few setae above toruli. Scattered setae on vertex, many setae on frons. Transfacial line 0.9 –0.8× the height of the compound eye. Malar space 0.3-0.4 × the height of the compound eye (Fig. 20[1]).

Antenna. Female: 13-segmented, filiform. All antennomers covered with sparse setae (Fig. 20[2]). Male: 14-segmented, filiform. All antennomers covered with sparse setae.

Mesosoma. Pronotum with setae; two thick, curved, long carinae (Fig. 20[4]). Mesoscutum smooth and shiny, round in dorsal view with sparse setae. Scutellum smooth and shiny with scattered setae, an M-shaped carina on the apex of scutellum. Propodeum with abundant setae; two propodeal carinae separated by setae in first third, forming a plate in last two-thirds, with strongly-curved sides (Fig. 20[5]).

Forewing. Longer than the body, 1.1 –1.5× as long as the mesosoma and metasoma combined, with dense pubescence and marginal setae. Open radial cell in variable sizes. Shape of R1 and Rs veins vary.

Metasoma. Has a small basal metasomal tergum, terminating just posterior to the ring of setae at the base of the metasoma (Fig. 20[6]).

Distribution.

Holarctic, Neotropical and African regions (Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013).

Biology.

Endoparasitoids of Encyrtidae ( Hymenoptera : Chalcidoidea) that are endoparasitoids of psyllids ( Hemiptera : Psyllidae ) ( Fergusson 1986; Menke and Evenhuis 1991). Until now it has been cited in: Euphyllura olivine and Euphyllura aethiopica by Silvestri (1915: 274).