Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, 1982

Kang, Ning, Hu, Hongying, Guo, Shuhan & Luo, Shungang, 2024, A new genus and three newly recorded species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from China, ZooKeys 1193, pp. 49-61 : 49

Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, 1982

Fig. 3A-G

Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, 1982: 26.

Material examined.

China: 3♀♀, card mounted, Xinjiang, Ruoqiang, Altun Mountain Nature Reserve, 37°58′30.15″N, 88°58′25.15″E, Altitude : 3489 m, 14.VII.2020. Coll. Shun-Gang Luo ; 2♀♀, 36°58′10.89″N, 90°14′44.19″E, Altitude : 4021.95 m, 21.VII.2020. Coll. Shun-Gang Luo , by yellow pan trapping (all depo-sited in ICXU).

Diagnosis.

Female. Length 1.12-1.45 mm (Fig. 3A ), body ink blue, with blue-purple metallic luster; ocelli silver, eyes argenteous; antenna and leg dark brown; tibiae concolorous with body, trochanter, distal tibiae and tarsi yellow (Fig. 3E-G ); forewing hyaline, venation dark brown. Head width equal to its height, ocelli forming an obtuse angle range from 96-105°, OOL about 1.55 × OCL, torulus below the ventral margin of eye, F1-F6 equal in length, gradually widen towards the end, scape less than 6 × as long as width, clava 3-segmented, with slight oblique truncation (Fig. 3D ); mandible tridentate, with median tooth longest. Mesoscutum with honeycomb reticulate, axillae separated apically (Fig. 3B ); linea calva complete, postmarginal vein punctate (Fig. 3C ); mesotibial spur 0.87 × basitarsus (Fig. 3F ). The exerted ovipositor obviously shorter than mesotarsus.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Xinjiang) new record; India (Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal) ( Kazmi and Hayat 2012), Turkmenistan ( Trjapitzin 1989).

Comments.

The similar species C. aretas can be separated from this species by the body color dark green, funicle elongated distally, scape more than 6 × as long as width, clava without oblique truncation, and forewing linea calva interrupted posteriorly ( Trjapitzin 1989).

Figures

Figure 3. Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, female A habitus, lateral view B head and mesoscutum, dorsal view C forewing D antenna E fore leg F mid leg G hind leg. Scale bars: 100 μm.