Encarsia chauliodoa, Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007

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 : 2149-2150

25. Encarsia chauliodoa n. sp.

( Figures 85–88 )

Description (holotype)

Female. Colour: head and mesosoma yellow. Antenna brown. Metasoma yellow except T4 and T5 laterally with brown spot and outer plate of ovipositor posteriorly brown. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel longer than F1 (1.31). F1 almost two times as long as its maximum width (1.86), subequal in length to F2 and F3. Mandible with a strongly enlarged ventral tooth ( Figure 87 ). Midlobe of mesoscutum with 12 setae. Scutellar sensilla widely separated (approximately six times the maximum width of a sensillum). Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae greater than between posterior pair. Fore wing about 2.4 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.25 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with nine setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia clearly longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.72). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 1, T6: 2, T7 with four setae. Ovipositor distinctly longer than midtibia (1.72), subequal in length to midtibia and tarsus together, and 2.85 times as long as clava.

Male. Unknown

Species group placement. Not established.

Distribution. Australia: Victoria.

Host. Unknown.

Material examined

Victoria: Holotype: ♀, 12 km N by W Hattah, 19 October 1983 (I. D. Naumann and J. C Cardale), ex ethanol ( ANIC).

Figures

Figures 85–88. Encarsia chauliodoa n. sp., holotype female. (85) Mesosoma and gaster. (86) Antenna. (87) Head. (88) Fore wing.