Cales orchamoplati Viggiani & Carver

Schmidt, Stefan, Barro, Paul De & Jamieson, Lisa, 2011, Parasitoids of the Australian citrus whitefly, Orchamoplatus citri (Takahashi) (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae), with description of a new Eretmocerus species (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae), Zootaxa 2873, pp. 27-34 : 29-30

Cales orchamoplati Viggiani & Carver

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Cales orchamoplati Viggiani & Carver 1988: 44 –45. Holotype Ƥ, Australia, South Australia, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, 30.xi.1976, H.M. Brookes and M. Carver, ex Orchamoplatus citri on lemon (ANIC, not examined). Cales orchamoplati Viggiani & Carver : Mottern et al. 2011: 282 (diagnosis).

Diagnosis. FEMALE. Colour: yellow, head and mesosoma slightly darker, wings hyaline.

Morphology. Stemmaticum with reticulate surface sculpture. Antennal formula 1,1,3,1 ( Fig. 2 ). Scape 2.9– 3.1X as long as pedicel and 0.7–0.8X as long as clava. Pedicel slightly shorter than combined length of F1 and F2 (0.8–0.9X). F1 1.3X as long as its maximum width, shorter than F2 (0.6X). F2 subequal in length to its maximum width. Clava 4.3–4.5X as long as its maximum width, equipped with 10 or 11 hair-like sensilla, apex truncate with 3 terminal peg-like sensilla ( Fig. 2 ). Midlobe of mesoscutum with 2 pairs of setae, arranged symmetrically, side lobes with 2 setae each ( Fig. 1 ). Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae distinctly greater than distance between posterior pair ( Fig. 1 ). Fore wing 2.8X as long as width of disc ( Fig. 4 ). Marginal fringe 0.5X as long as width of disc ( Fig. 4 ). Basal cell without setae. Submarginal vein with 1 seta, marginal vein anteriorly with 5 setae. Apical spur of midtibia distinctly longer than half length of corresponding basitarsus (0.8X). Ovipositor distinctly shorter than midtibia (0.6–0.7X) and slightly shorter than clava (0.7–0.8X).

MALE. No males of the species were collected as part of the present study. For a description of C. orchamoplati males from the type locality see Viggiani & Carver (1988: 45).

Distribution. Australia: Queensland, South Australia.

Material examined. 3Ƥ, AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Loxton, 34.4512°S, 140.5698°E, 50 m, December 2009 (J. Altman), ex O. citri ( ZSM).

Genbank accession. HQ660516 , JF750733 .

Comments. Cales orchamoplati has previously been known only from its type locality in Adelaide, South Australia ( Viggiani & Carver 1988) and from Mt. Glorious, Queensland ( Mottern et al. 2011). It is distinguished from the only other Australian Cales species, C. spenceri (Girault) , by its shorter marginal fringe (0.5X compared to 0.8X as long as the maximum width of disc in C. spenceri ) ( Mottern et al. 2011).

The 28S-D2 sequence data did not show any intraspecific variation. Amplification of the COI barcoding region consistently yielded sequences of endosymbiontic Wolbachia .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Cales orchamoplati, female. 1, body; 2, antenna; 3, head, front view; 4, fore wing.