Signiphora bifasciata Ashmead

Schmidt, Stefan, Hamid, Hasmiandy, Ubaidillah, Rosichon, Ward, Samantha & Polaszek, Andrew, 2019, A review of the Indonesian species of the family Signiphoridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with description of three new species, ZooKeys 897, pp. 29-47 : 29

Signiphora bifasciata Ashmead

Signiphora bifasciata Ashmead, 1900: 411. Female.

Signiphora platensis Bréthes: Woolley (1988).

Diagnosis and remarks.

The Neotropical species was recorded as a parasitoid of the cycad aulacaspis scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi ( Hemiptera , Diaspididae ) in the Bogor Botanic Gardens in 2011 ( Muniappan et al. 2012). This represents the first record of the family Signiphoridae from Indonesia. The species can be separated from other Signiphora species by the following characters (see Muniappan et al. 2012 and figures therein): discal seta present on both fore wing and hind wing, fore wing infuscate from the wing base to the distal end of the stigmal vein, submarginal vein with 2 setae, marginal vein of the hind wing with 1 seta, female antenna with 2-3 annelli, marginal fringe of fore wing very long, nearly half as long as width of disc, mesosoma brown except scutellum and metanotum which are pale tan, yellow or white, mesoscutum with about 16 setae, scutellum with 6 setae.