Encarsia noyesi (Hayat, 1983)

Myartseva, Svetlana Nikolaevna, Evans, Gregory Allyn & Coronado-Blanco, Juana Maria, 2014, The Encarsia noyesi species-group (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) in the Neotropical region, with a key and description of the male of E. andrewi from Mexico, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 39, pp. 33-46 : 40-42

Encarsia noyesi (Hayat, 1983)

Encarsiella noyesi Hayat, 1983: 85. Holotype female. Trinidad: St. George, St. Augustine, xi.1976, F. D. Bennett, in BMNH; Polaszek and Hayat 1992: 195; Myartseva and Coronado 2002: 623.

Dirphys noyesi (Hayat); Hayat 1989: 7.

Encarsia noyesi (Hayat); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007: 81.

Diagnosis.

Female: head with frontovertex orange, face pale, occiput brownish. Antenna (Fig. 8 ) with second and third segments of funicle yellow, club dark brown. Body brownish-black, scutellum pale yellow, in living female pearlish-bluish-white. Legs pale yellow, mid and hind coxae and hind femora infuscate. Third valvula pale, with black apices. Fore wing hyaline, with a long bare band along wing margin, 8-10 basal group setae, 9 setae on marginal vein. Mid tibial spur 0.9 times as long as basitarsus. Ovipositor as long as mid tibia, third valvula 0.6 times as long as second valvifer. Male similar to female, except for darker coloration and structure of antenna (Fig. 9 ) and genitalia.

Distribution.

Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (California, Florida) ( Noyes 2013). In Mexico, this species has been found in Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Yucatán ( Myartseva and Evans 2008).

Hosts.

Aleurodicus chirripoensis Martin, A. cocois , A. dispersus , A. dugesii Cockerell, A. maritimus Hempel, A. rugioperculatus Martin, and Aleurothrixus floccosus (Maskell). It has been reported from Nipaecoccus aurilanatus (Maskell), Puto barberi (Cockerell) ( Pseudococcidae ), probably as a hyperparasitoid ( Noyes 2013).

Comments.

Encarsia noyesi has been used to control Aleurodicus dugesii in Florida ( Nguyen and Hamon 2002) and also attacks Aleurodicus rugioperculatus , a newly introduced, invasive whitefly in Florida ( Taravati et al. 2013), and A. chirripoensis , new pest of banana in Costa Rica ( Sánchez and Laprade 2013).

Figures

Figures 7 - 12. Antennae of Encarsia spp.: 7 Encarsia nayarita, female 8 Encarsia noyesi, female 9 male 10 Encarsia pithecura, female 11 Encarsia tamaulipeca, female 12 male.