Euplectrus flavipes (Fonscolombe)

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2018, Revision of the European species of Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with a key to European species of Euplectrini, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 67, pp. 1-35 : 15

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.67.28810

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scientific name

Euplectrus flavipes (Fonscolombe)
status

 

Euplectrus flavipes (Fonscolombe) View in CoL View at ENA

Figures 13 View Figures 7–16 , 33-35 View Figures 27–35 , 51 View Figures 48–51

Spalangia flavipes Fonscolombe, 1832:299. Lectotype female, designated by Bouček (1970:88) in OUMNH, examined. Combined to Euplectrus by Fonscolombe (1840:192).

Euplectrus cacoeciae Ferrière, 1941:42. Holotype female in NHM, examined. Synonymized with E. flavipes by Bouček (1970:88).

Material

(74♀ 39♂). Bosnia /Hercegovina: 1♀ (NHM); Cyprus : 19♀ 11♂ (NHM), this material includes 1♀ from Spodoptera litura , 6♀ 4♂ from Spodoptera exigua , 6♀ ♂ from Heliothis sp. on alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ), 22♀ ♂ from Plusia sp. on alfalfa; Czech Republic : 20♀ 14♂ (MZLU, ZSM), this material includes 13♀ 8♂ from Alsophila aescularia on Carpinus betulus and 2♀ and Populus alba , 1♂ from Carcina quercana on C. betulus , 1♂ from Cosmia trapezina on C. betulus , 3♀ from Cyclophora annularia on Acer campestr e; France : 15♀ 9♂ (NHM, ZSM), this material includes 1♀ 2♂ from Alsophila aescularia , 1♀ from Colobochyla salicalis , 1♀ 1♂ from unknown caterpillar on Sonchus sp; Greece : 1♀ (MZLU); Hungary : 1♀ (MZLU); Italy : 1♀ (NHM); Macedonia : 1♀ (NHM); Romania : 6♀ (MZLU; NHM); Serbia : 3♀ (NHM); Slovenia : 2♀ 1♂ (MZLU, NHM), this material includes 1♀ from unidentified noctuid caterpillar on tomato; Spain : 1♀ 2♂ (NHM); Switzerland : 1♀ 1♂ (MZLU), this material includes 1♀ 1♂ from Mamestra brassicae ; Turkey : 2♀ 1♂ (NHM), this material includes 2♀ 1♂ from Plusia sp. Detailed geographic information of all barcoded specimens is listed in Suppl. material S1 .

Diagnosis.

Frons below level of toruli with pale area not extending laterally to the eye but with a wide dark stripe between pale area and eye in both sexes (Figs 33 View Figures 27–35 , 34 View Figures 27–35 ); midlobe of mesoscutum with a complete median carina (Fig. 51 View Figures 48–51 ); female with pale area in anterior ½ of first gastral tergite large and with narrow brown margins, margins about ½ as wide as width of petiole (Fig. 35 View Figures 27–35 ); male gaster with pale part in anterior ½ reaching margin in posterior part, thus interrupting the dark lateral margins of the gaster (Fig. 13 View Figures 7–16 ); female gaster with apex pale (Fig. 35 View Figures 27–35 ).

Hosts.

Tortricidae : Archips rosana (L.) ( Ferrière 1941). New/confirmed records: Depressariidae : Carcina quercana (Fabricius) on Carpinus betulus . Erebidae : Colobochyla salicalis (Denis & Schiffermüller); Geometridae : Alsophila aescularia (Denis & Schiffermüller) on C. betulus and Populus alba ; Cyclophora annularia (Fabricius) on Acer campestre ; Noctuidae : Cosmia trapezina (L.) on C. betulus ; Heliothis sp.; Mamestra brassicae (L.); Plusia sp.; Spodoptera exigua Hübner; Spodoptera litura Fabricius, unidentified noctuid caterpillar on tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ).

Distribution.

Bulgaria ( Ferrière 1941), France ( Fonscolombe 1832), Bosnia/Hercegovina, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey (new/confirmed records). This species seems to occur only in Central and South Europe, but not in northern Europe. Hedqvist (2003) listed E. flavipes from Sweden, from the province of Södermanland. One of us (CH) has seen this material in coll. Hedqvist (now in NHM), a reared series consisting of 15 females and four males and they are misidentified. Instead these specimens belong to E. bicolor .

Genetic data.

Euplectrus flavipes consists of eight subclusters, each of which was assigned a different BIN by the BOLD system (Fig. 63 View Figure 63 ). The subclustering coincides with a higher than usual intraspecific variation of 5.3%. Geographic subclustering in this species is prominent and four of the haplotypes have been recorded from a single country only, whereas the other haplotypes occurred in two or more countries. In Romania, three haplotypes, each with a different BIN, represented by four specimens, were recorded (Suppl. materials S1, S2). The analysed specimens do not represent the full distributional range of the species, and it is therefore to be expected that more haplotypes are present in the species. A more comprehensive sampling regime and analysis of more material and additional gene regions is required to assess the status the genetically different populations of E. flavipes .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Euplectrus

Loc

Euplectrus flavipes (Fonscolombe)

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan 2018
2018
Loc

Euplectrus cacoeciae

Ferriere 1941
1941
Loc

Spalangia flavipes

Fonscolombe 1832
1832
Loc

Euplectrus

Westwood 1832
1832