Cheiloneurus gonatopodis Perkins, 1906

Wang, Haiyang, Cui, Wenyu, Xi, Chunxiang, Cao, Xinyu, Li, Weiqiong & Zu, Guohao, 2024, A taxonomic study of Cheiloneurus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 143-172 : 143

Cheiloneurus gonatopodis Perkins, 1906

Figs 58-60 , 73-77

Cheiloneurus gonatopodis Perkins, in Perkins et al. 1906: 261. Lectotype ♀ designated by Noyes 1988: 63: Australia, Queensland, Childers (BPBM).

Cheiloneurus gonatopodis Perkins; Anis and Hayat 2002: 152; Guerrieri and Viggiani 2005: 310.

Material examined.

China - Hainan • 1♀; Lingshui Li Autonomous County, Diaoluo Mountain ; 18°39'35"N, 109°54'57"E; 1499 m elev.; 15 May 2016; Guo-Hao Zu leg.; by yellow pan trapping; TJAU-HN-CHE-005 .

Description.

Female. Length, excluding ovipositor, 1.16 mm. Head yellow, frontovertex brown. Antenna yellowish brown, scape yellow. Mesosoma yellowish brown, leg yellowish white, basal half of hind tibial white. Metasoma mostly yellow, but basally and apically brown, frontovertex 0.21 × head width; eye height 1.62 × malar space; antennal (Fig. 74 ) scape 6.38 × as long as wide; pedicel 2.23 × as long as wide and longer than F1-F2 combined, funicle 6-segmented, clava 3-segmented, 2.6 × as long as width, shorter than F2-F6 combined; fore wing (Fig. 76 ) 2.96 × as long as wide; linea calva not interrupted and open posteriorly; mid tibial spur (Fig. 77 ) 0.31 × as long as mid tibia and shorter than basitarsus, ovipositor (Fig. 75 ) as long as mid tibia, not exserted.

Host.

Dryinidae : Echthrodelphax sp., Pseudogonatopoides mauritianus , Pseudogonatopus sp., Pseudogonatopus mauritianus , Richardsidryinus sp.; Delphacidae : Dicranotropis muiri , Nilaparvata myersi , Perkinsiella saccharicida ( Guerrieri and Viggiani 2005).

Distribution.

China (Hainan), Afrotropical, Australia, India, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand.

Comments.

This is the first record from China.

Figures

Figures 52 - 60. Cheiloneurus elegans ♀ 52 dorsal habitus (Palaearctic) 53 lateral habitus (Palaearctic) 54 ventral habitus (Palaearctic) 55 dorsal habitus (Oriental) 56 lateral habitus (Oriental) 57 ventral habitus (Oriental) 58 - 60 Cheiloneurus gonatopodis ♀ 58 dorsal habitus 59 lateral habitus 60 ventral habitus.

Figures 73 - 77. Cheiloneurus gonatopodis ♀ 73 mesosoma 74 antenna 75 metasoma 76 fore wing 77 legs. Scale bars: 100 μm.