Encarsia cybele 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 : 2157-2158

30. Encarsia cybele Girault

( Figures 99–101 )

Encarsia cybele Girault 1913 [167], p 186. Holotype ♀, Australia, Queensland, Nelson [5Gordonvale] (Cairns), 17 June 1913 (A. P. Dodd) (QMBA, type no. Hy. 1724, examined).

Encarsia cybele Girault : Girault 1915[238], p 60 (correction to 1913 description), Dahms 1983, p 207 –208, Viggiani 1985c, p 240.

Redescription (holotype)

Female. Colour: head predominantly brown. Mesosoma brown. Metasoma yellow, at base with narrow brown band and with lateral brown band reaching back to T6. Antenna yellow. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,4,2. Pedicel subequal in length to F1. F1 about two times as long as its maximum width, shorter than F2 (0.85) and F3 (0.86). Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 1, F2: 2, F3: 2–3, F4: 3, F5: 3, F6: 3. Mesoscutal midlobe with 10 strong setae, side lobes with three setae each. Scutellar sensilla widely separated (approximately six times the maximum width of a sensillum). Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae subequal to distance between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.4 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.31 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with six setae. Basal cell with eight setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia subequal to half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.47). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 1, T2: 1–2, T3: 2–3, T4: 2, T5: 2, T6: 3, setae on T7 indiscernible. Ovipositor distinctly shorter than length of the midtibia (0.70). Third valvula 0.47 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. E. inaron group.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Figures

Figures 99–101. Encarsia cybele Girault, holotype female. (99) Body of type specimen. (100) Head and antennae. (101) Fore wing.