Encarsia magniclava (Girault, 1915)

Myartseva, Svetlana Nikolaevna, Evans, Gregory Allyn & Coronado-Blanco, Juana Maria, 2014, The Encarsia noyesi species-group (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) in the Neotropical region, with a key and description of the male of E. andrewi from Mexico, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 39, pp. 33-46 : 39

Encarsia magniclava (Girault, 1915)

Coccophagus magniclavus Girault, 1915: 33. Syntype females. British Guiana (=Guyana): Berbice, Demarara, iii.1993, G. E. Bodkin, ex. Aleurochiton sp., in USNM.

Prospaltella magniclava (Girault); Compere 1931: 31.

Encarsiella magniclava (Girault); Viggiani 1986: 66.

Dirphys magniclavus (Girault); Hayat 1989: 288.

Encarsia magniclava (Girault); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007: 81.

Diagnosis.

This species was briefly redescribed by Viggiani (1986); Polaszek and Hayat (1992) provided a more complete redescription of the species. Female: body deep orange yellow, the following parts black: head around occiput, pronotum, antennal club, apex of axillae, suture along apical margin of scutellum. Gaster orange yellow at base and black dorsally. Legs white. Fore wing hyaline. Third valvula yellow. Antennal (Fig. 5 ) pedicel very slightly longer than wide; first and second segments of funicle subequal in length, each 2.4 times as long as wide and 1.5 times as long as pedicel; third segment as long as pedicel. Segments of club wider than long. Fore wing with two large setae and 2-4 smaller setae on submarginal vein, marginal vein with 14-16 setae along anterior margin. Ovipositor about as long as mid tibia. Male: unknown.

Distribution.

Guyana, Panama ( Noyes 2013).

Hosts.

Aleurochiton sp., Eudialeurodicus bodkini Quaintance & Baker ( Noyes 2013).

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Antennae of Encarsia spp.: 1 Encarsia aleurodici, female 2 male 3 Encarsia andrewi, female 4 male 5 Encarsia magniclava, female 6 Encarsia narroi, female.