Copidosomopsis bohemicus (Hoffer)

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 : 56-57

Copidosomopsis bohemicus (Hoffer)

( Figs 9, 10 )

Pentalitomastix bohemicus Hoffer, 1960: 107 . Holotype Ƥ, not examined. Pentalitomastix bohemicus Hoffer : Trjapitzin, 1978: 320.

Copidosomopsis bohemicus (Hoffer) : Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 259; Trjapitzin, 1989: 353.

Description. Female. Body length 0.8−0.9 mm. Body dark brown, head and thorax with slight green sheen; scape dark brown except apex yellow, pedicel and flagellum dark brown; tegula dark brown; legs dark brown except fore tibia broadly, apices of mid femora, mid tibia, base of hind tibia, and basal 4 tarsal segments of all legs yellow.

Head. Head in dorsal view about 1.9× as wide as frontovertex; ocelli forming an angle of about 120º; antenna ( Fig. 9 ) with scape about 5.5× as long as broad, F1 about 1.25× 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 apically smooth; fore wing about 2.1× as long as broad, venation as in Fig. 10 .

Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths hardly exserted.

Relative measurements: HW 34, FW 18, OOL 2, OCL 3, OD 3, MT 34, OL 25.

Male. Similar to female except antenna and genitalia. Antenna dark brown to dark yellow brown; all funicular segments a little longer than broad; clava apically narrowly rounded.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. China (new record); Czech Republic and Slovakia ( Trjapitzin 1978, 1989; Kalina 1989).

Material examined. CHINA, 2 Ƥ, Liaoning, Shenyang, 25.vii.2001, coll. JX Lou; 3 Ƥ, 9 33, Liaoning, Shenyang, viii. 1991, coll. JX Lou.

Comments. The Chinese specimens generally agree with the original description by Hoffer (1960). We have not seen the holotype of Copidosomopsis bohemicus (Hoffer) , but based on the original description the hind femora is entirely dark brown and the basal part of the mid tibia is dark. In Chinese material we identify as C. bohemicus only about the apical half of the hind femora is dark brown and the mid tibia is entirely yellow. We believe this falls within the variation of the species.

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.