Copidosomopsis nacoleiae (Eady)

Yu, Fang, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Zhu, Chao-Dong & Tu, Li-Hong, 2010, A taxonomic study of Chinese species of Copidosomopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), Zootaxa 2490, pp. 55-62 : 57-59

Copidosomopsis nacoleiae (Eady)

( Figs 11, 12 )

Pseudolitomastix nacoleiae Eady, 1960a: 667 ; holotype Ƥ, BMNH, examined by ZYZ. Pentalitomastix nacoleiae ( Eady) : Eady, 1960b: 173; Subba Rao, 1971: 222.

Copidosomopsis nacoleiae (Eady) : Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 258; Kazmi & Hayat, 1998: 330.

Description. Female. Body length about 0.8 mm. Body dark brown, with slight blue green sheen; scape yellow, pedicel and flagellum dark yellowish-brown; tegula dark brown; coxae of all legs dark brown; fore and mid legs with femora dark brown except apices yellow, and tibiae yellow; hind femur yellow except apex dark brown, base and apex of hind tibia yellow; tarsus brownish yellow.

Head. Head in dorsal view nearly 2× as wide as frontovertex (30/16); ocelli forming an angle of about 100º; antenna ( Fig. 11 ) with scape about 6× as long as broad, F1 about 1.5× as long as broad, clava solid, obliquely truncate at apex, the truncated part occupying half clava length.

Thorax. Mesoscutum with raised sculpture of polygonal cells, scutellum with same sculpture but sculpture in about apical half shallow; fore wing about 2.1× as long as broad, venation as in Fig. 12 .

Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths (as in Fig. 6 ) hardly exserted.

Male. Similar to female except antenna and genitalia. Antenna yellow brown; at least distal funicular segments a little longer than broad; clava apically pointed.

Host. Cnaphalocrocis patnalis (Bradley) ( Arida et al. 1989) , Glyphodes vertumnalis (Guen.) ( Mathew 1981) , Nacoleia octasema (Meyrick) ( Eady 1960a) and Palpita marginata (Hampson) ( Subba Rao 1971) ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ).

Distribution. China (new record), India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore (Noyes 2003).

Material examined. CHINA, 2 Ƥ, 3 33, Guangxi, Longzhou, 15.vi.2000, coll. CD Zhu; 3 Ƥ, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 12.ix.2001, coll. CD Zhu.

Comments. Copidosomopsis nacoleiae is very close to C. perminutus Girault (1915) in general color, antennal structure and thoracic sculpture ( Noyes & Hayat 1984). There is also some variation in coloration of legs between some Indian material and paratypes (see Kazmi & Hayat 1998).

Figures

FIGURES 9 − 16. 9 − 10, Copidosomopsis bohemicus, female: 9, antenna; 10, fore wing; 11 − 12, C. nacoleiae, female: 11, antenna; 12, fore wing; 13 − 16, C. trisegmentis: 13, antenna, female; 14, fore wing, female; 15, mid leg, female; 16, antenna, male.

FIGURES 1 − 8. 1 − 6, Copidosomopsis orientalis, female: 1, antenna; 2, fore wing; 3, fore leg; 4, mid leg; 5, hind leg; 6, ovipositor; 7 − 8, C. meridionalis, female: 7, antenna, 8, fore wing.