Encarsia tamaulipeca (Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)

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 : 42-43

Encarsia tamaulipeca (Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)

Encarsiella tamaulipeca Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2002: 621. Holotype female. Mexico: Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, 7-8.xii.1995, S. Myartseva, ex. Aleyrodidae on Psidium guajava , in USNM.

Encarsia tamaulipeca (Myartseva & Coronado-Blanco, 2002); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007: 81.

Diagnosis.

Female: head black, face ferrugineous from anterior ocellus to interantennal prominence and whitish below (except upper margin of mouth, hind part of cheeks and antennal scrobes). Pedicel and club brown, scape (except distal half dorsally) and third funicular segment whitish, first and second segments pale brown. Mesosoma and gaster black. Fore wings hyaline. Legs yellowish-white, mid and hind coxae, hind femora black, mid femora and hind tibiae infuscate. Third valvula whitish. Eye 2 times as long as cheek. Antennal scape (Fig. 11 ) 4 times as long as wide; pedicel 1.7 times as long as wide and slightly longer than first segment of funicle; first to third segments of funicle 1.5, 1.8 and 1.3 times as long as wide, respectively. Club slightly longer than funicle. First segment of funicle without sensilla. Fore wing more than twice as long as wide, its base with 7-10 setae, marginal fringe very short. Hind wing more than 4.5 times as long as wide. Mid tibial spur slightly shorter than basitarsus. Ovipositor exserted, longer than mid tibia (14:11), third valvula 0.5 times as long as second valvifer. Male differs by head and body more dark coloration, and structure of antenna (Fig. 12 ) and genitalia.

Distribution.

Mexico (Tamaulipas).

Hosts.

Aleurodicinae unspecified sp. (possibly Aleurodicus sp.).

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.