Pteroptrix orientalis (Silvestri) 1909

Chen, Ye & Li, Cheng-De, 2017, A new species, first report of a male and new distributional records for three species of Pteroptrix (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 12387-12387 : 12387

Pteroptrix orientalis (Silvestri) 1909

Archenomus orientalis Silvestri 1909: 563. Italy, not examined.

Archenomus orientalis : Prinsloo and Neser (1990): 24; Huang et al. (1992): 164; Huang (1994): 103; Xu and Huang (2004): 313.

Pteroptrix orientalis : Viggiani and Garonna (1993): 59; Viggiani and Ren (1986): 237.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Cheng-De Li; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixorientalis; originalNameUsage: Archenomusorientalis Silvestri 1909; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; county: Dalian City; municipality: Pulandian; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 1994-06-05; Record Level: institutionCode: NEFU Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Xiang-xiang Jin;Guo-hao Zu;Si-zhu Liu; sex: 3 females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixorientalis; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Shandong; county: Qingdao City; municipality: Xiaozhu Mountain; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Ye Chen; dateIdentified: 2016-12; Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 2014-5-20; Record Level: institutionID: NEFU

Host

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) ( Hemiptera : Diaspididae ). ( Huang (1994)).

Distribution

China (Liaoning [new record], Shandong [new record], Fujian), South Korea, Japan, Italy, Dominican Republic ( Noyes 2016).

Comments

Our specimens agree well with the description of Huang (1994), but the following difference should be noted: in the material from Qingdao City, F3 as in Fig. 2 with one sensillum (sensilla present only on clava segments in Huang's description).