Pseudleptomastix Girault 1915 d

Zuparko, Robert L., 2015, Annotated Checklist of California Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera), Zootaxa 4017 (1), pp. 1-126 : 62

Pseudleptomastix Girault 1915 d

Hosts. Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae

squammulata Girault 1915 d: 272

Type. USNM

Distribution. W (Alameda, Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Ventura )

Host/habitat. Amonostherium lichtensioides , Pseudococcus maritimus ; NEW: Spilococcus pressus

Remarks. This species has also been reported from California under its junior synonyms Paraleptomastix notatus Girault 1917 c and Pseudleptomastix flatulescens Compere 1926 a . One of the distinguishing characters of this species is the all yellow fore coxae, but in a short series of specimens from Kern County ( RLZC), the color varies from almost all yellow to almost all black.

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Remarks. Two species of the genus ( P. squammulata and P. tertia Kerrich 1982 , the latter known only from the eastern seaboard) have been recorded from the United States, but I have seen specimens that appear to represent an additional five morphospecies present in the state from Kern, Imperial, Marin, Lassen, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Stanislaus counties ( RLZC, UCDC, UCFC, UCRC). A single specimen ( UCRC) was reared from an Asphondylia sp. stem gall on Larrea tridentata , and a series of specimens from Marin County ( RLZC) appear to be associated with Calycadenia multiglandulosa ( Asteraceae ). There is another series of specimens that appear to be near to Pseudleptomastix , reared in association with male Rhopus from Dysmicoccus timberlakei in Alameda County ( EMEC).