Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986, 1989

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Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986

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Trichaporus indicus Azim & Shafee, 1980: 335 . Holotype ♀, India, Tamil Nadu, Ootacamund, (ZDAMU, not examined). Preoccupied by Prospaltella indica Shafee, 1973: 255 .

Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986: 160 . Replacement name for Trichaporus indicus Azim & Shafee.

Encarsia adrianae Lopez-Avila, 1987: 425 . Holotype ♀, Pakistan (BMNH, not examined). Polaszek et al., 1992: 381. Booth & Polaszek, 1996: 72. Synonymy by Hayat, 1998: 202.

Encarsia azimi Hayat: Hayat, 1989 : 62; Chou et al., 1996: 196; Huang & Polaszek, 1998: 1845; Hayat, 1998: 202; Schmidt et al., 2001: 371; Hernández-Suárez et al., 2003: 62; Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007: 2132 ; Hayat, 2012: 245.

Material examined. CHINA: 1♀ [on slide], Liaoning Province, Fushun City, Dahuofang Forestry centre, 18.VI.2012, Hui Geng, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Jiang Liu, sweeping ; 1♀ [on slide], Liaoning Province, Fushun City, Yingpan Town, Shimenling Village , 20.VI 2012, Hui Geng, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Jiang Liu, sweeping ; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Manxieba Village , 22.VII.2012, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Hui Geng, Chao Zhang, sweeping ; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City , Lancang County, 19–20.IV.2013, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Guo-Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT ; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Ruili City, Nanjingli Village, 26–27.IV.2013, Xiang-Xiang Jin , Guo- Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT? 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Manxieba Village, 17–18.IV.2013, Xiang- Xiang Jin, Guo-Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT ; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Daheishan , 11–12.II.2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhong-Ping Xiong, YPT ; 1♀ [on slide], Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Mountains, Beijiushui , 1–3.VIII.2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Ye Chen, sweeping ; 1♀ [on slide], Hubei Province, Suizhou City, Santan , 12–14.VIII.2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, YPT ; 3♀ [on slides], Henan Province, Xinyang City , 7– 10.VIII. 2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, YPT ; 2♀ [on slides], Xizang, Chayu County, Xiachayu Town , 15.V.2015, Chao Zhang, Ye Chen, sweeping ; 1♀ [on slide], Jilin Province, Wangqing County, Daxingou Town, Longshui Village , 24.VIII.2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, sweeping. ( NEFU).

Hosts. Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ; Thysanoptera : Thripidae (for detailed host species list see Noyes 2016). Distribution. China (Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Yunnan, Xizang [new records], Taiwan). Palaearctic: Iran, Italy, Japan, Spain. Oriental: India, Pakistan, Thailand. Australasian: Australia. Nearctic: USA. Afrotropical: Canary Islands.

Comments. Relative length of F1 is variable, from slightly to distinctly shorter than the pedicel, but always distinctly shorter than F2; F2 is at least 2× as long as wide, occasionally less, and slightly shorter than or equal in length to F3; and T1 lacks or has up to 2 setae.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Encarsia azimi, ♀: 1, part of mesoscutum with inner sculpture enlarged. Scale bars = 50 µm.