Metaphycus

Hayat, Mohammad, Ahmad, Zubair & Khan, Farmanur Rehman, 2014, Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 3793 (1), pp. 1-59 : 39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4539037A-4B05-4E37-8B65-2DF0FE753BAE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6141485

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B987C8-FFD4-FFB7-FF1A-7690FCE55721

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Metaphycus
status

 

Metaphycus View in CoL View at ENA sp.

Material examined. KSA: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah, vi.2012, (MT), Coll. Z. Ahmad (1 ♀, on slide, EH.1693) ( ZDAMU).

Comments. The above specimen of Metaphycus Mercet belongs to the alberti species-group, characterized by having both the maxillary and the labial palps 2-segmented. It does not run to any species in the available keys ( Annecke & Mynhardt 1981; Trjapitzin 1989; Guerrieri & Noyes 2000; Noyes 2004; Hayat 2006). This species will be taken up when more specimens become available.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Chalcidoidea

Family

Encyrtidae

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