Pteroptrix processa (Huang) 1991

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 processa (Huang) 1991

Archenomus processus Huang (1991): 396. Holotype female, China, Jiangsu, FACC, not examined.

Archenomus processus : Huang (1994): 114; Xu and Huang (2004): 316.

Pteroptrix processa : Viggiani and Ren (1993): 237; Viggiani and Garonna (1993): 61.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Xiu-Wei Liu; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixprocessa; originalNameUsage: Archenomusprocessus Huang 1991; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Beijing City; municipality: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Ye Chen; dateIdentified: 2016-11; Event: samplingProtocol: yellowpan trapping; eventDate: 2012-05-09; Record Level: institutionID: NEFU Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ye Chen; Chao Zhang; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixprocessa; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Shaanxi; county: Ningshan; municipality: Guanghuojie Town; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Ye Chen; dateIdentified: 2016-1; Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping; Record Level: institutionID: NEFU

Description

Male. Body length 0.5 mm. Colouration similar to that of female, largely brown to dark brown. Antenna (Fig. 3a) with radicle 2.73 × as long as wide; scape 4.33 × as long as wide; pedicle slightly longer than wide and 0.63 × as long as F1; funicle segments with F2 shortest, F3 a little longer than F1. Mid-lobe of mesoscutum with 2 setae, propodeum distinctly salient posterior-medially and 3.6 × as long as metanotum. Fore wing (Fig. 3b) 2.8 × as long as wide, marginal fringe 0.48 × as long as the greatest width of wing. Genitalia as in Fig. 3c and 0.55 × as long as midtibia.

Host

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) ( Hemiptera : Diaspididae ), ( Huang 1991).

Distribution

China (Fujian, Jiangsu, Beijing [new record], Shaanxi [new record]).

Comments

This species is unique for the genus in having the mid-lobe of mesoscutum with only 2 setae and propodeum distinctly salient posterior-medially. This is the first report for its male.