Encarsia aurithorax Girault, 1913

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew, 2007, The Australian species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Journal of Natural History 41 (33 - 36), pp. 2099-2265 : 2131-2132

13. Encarsia aurithorax Girault

( Figures 44–46 )

Encarsia aurithorax Girault 1913 [167], p 186–187. Syntypes 2♀, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane , 26 June 1913 (H. Hacker) (QMBA, type no. Hy. 1725, examined).

Encarsia aurithorax Girault : Dahms 1983, p 83; Viggiani 1985c, p 237.

Redescription (syntypes)

Female. Colour: head brown. Mesosoma orange-yellow except pronotum, mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly, axilla, mesopleuron, propodeum brown. Metasoma dark brown. Antenna and legs dusky yellow. Fore wing hyaline, slightly infuscate behind marginal vein, fading distally.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel slightly shorter than F1 (0.90). F1 2.42– 2.56 times as long as its maximum width, shorter than F2 (0.81–0.92) and F3 (0.83–0.85). F2 subequal in length to F3. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 10 setae. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of about the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae distinctly smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.5– 2.6 times as long as width of disc. Marginal setae 0.20–0.22 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with seven or eight setae, costal cell distally with two setae. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with 7–10 setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.61–0.64). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 2, T3: 2, T4: 2, T5: 2–3, T6: 2–3, setae on T7 indiscernible. Ovipositor subequal in length to midtibia.

Male. Unknown

Species group placement. E. strenua group.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Figures

Figures 44–46. Encarsia aurithorax (Girault), holotype female. (44) Mesosoma and base of gaster. (45) Head and antennae. (46) Fore wing.