Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman)

Wang, Hai-Yan & Li, Cheng-De, 2018, Key to Chinese species of Copidosoma (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), with new records and three new species, Zootaxa 4418 (4), pp. 353-369 : 368

Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman)

Figs 37–41

Encyrtus serricornis Dalman, 1820: 360 . Lectotype ♂, designated by Graham , 1959: 170, Sweden ( NHRM, not examined).

Encyrtus spherus Walker, 1837: 459 . Lectotype ♂, designated by Graham, 1969: 299, UK (BMNH, not examined). Synonymized with Litomastix serricornis by Graham, 1969: 299.

Litomastix serricornis (Dalman) : Thomson, 1876: 178; Graham, 1969: 299.

Copidosoma cidariae Mayr, 1876: 734 . Lectotype ♀, designated by Graham, 1969: 299, Germany (BMNH, not examined). Synonymized with Litomastix serricornis by Graham, 1959: 170.

Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman) : Trjapitzin, 1989: 348; Guerrieri & Noyes, 2005: 110; Zhang & Huang, 2007: 116.

Material examined. CHINA: 2♀ [No. E1307-02, E1307-03, on slides, NEFU], Xizang Autonomous Region (= Tibet), Linzhi City, Mt. Sejila, 27.VII.2013, Hui-lin Han, Zhi-guang Wu, YPT.

Diagnosis. Female. Body mostly dark brown. Wings hyaline except for a small brown spot around marginal and stigmal veins of fore wing. Head in frontal view as in Fig. 37 with dark green reflection. Antenna ( Fig. 38 ) with scape black, and with reticulate sculpture; pedicel nearly as long as F1, clava 3-segmented and concave ventrally, shorter than scape, and nearly as long as 3.5 preceding funicular segments combined; sensorial part extending about 0.74× length of clava. Mesoscutum ( Fig. 39 ) with dark blue reflections. Fore wing ( Fig. 40 ) with marginal vein about 0.54× as long as stigmal vein, postmarginal vein about 0.69× as long as stigmal vein. Mesotibial spur ( Fig. 41 ) 0.29× as long as mesotibia, shorter than basal tarsus. Metasoma ( Fig. 39 ) nearly as long as mesosoma; ovipositor 0.48× as long as metasoma, 0.54× as long as mesotibia and distinctly exerted at apex of metasoma.

Host. Unknown from China, but recorded as parasitoid of several species of Geometridae and Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera) (Noyes 2017).

Distribution. China (Liaoning, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Tibet [new record]), Austria, Czech, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK (Noyes 2017).

Comments. This is the first record from southwestern China.

Figures

FIGURES 37–41. Copidosoma serricorne, ♀ (No. E1307-02): 37, head, frontal view; 38, antenna; 39, meso- and metasoma; 40, fore wing; 41 legs; Scale bars=100µm.