Encarsia aurithorax Girault, 1913

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew, 2007, The Australian species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Journal of Natural History 41 (33 - 36), pp. 2099-2265 : 2131-2132

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13. Encarsia aurithorax Girault View in CoL

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Encarsia aurithorax Girault 1913 View in CoL [167], p 186–187. Syntypes 2♀, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane , 26 June 1913 (H. Hacker) (QMBA, type no. Hy. 1725, examined).

Encarsia aurithorax Girault View in CoL : Dahms 1983, p 83; Viggiani 1985c, p 237.

Redescription (syntypes)

Female. Colour: head brown. Mesosoma orange-yellow except pronotum, mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly, axilla, mesopleuron, propodeum brown. Metasoma dark brown. Antenna and legs dusky yellow. Fore wing hyaline, slightly infuscate behind marginal vein, fading distally.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel slightly shorter than F1 (0.90). F1 2.42– 2.56 times as long as its maximum width, shorter than F2 (0.81–0.92) and F3 (0.83–0.85). F2 subequal in length to F3. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 10 setae. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of about the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae distinctly smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.5– 2.6 times as long as width of disc. Marginal setae 0.20–0.22 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with seven or eight setae, costal cell distally with two setae. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with 7–10 setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.61–0.64). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 2, T3: 2, T4: 2, T5: 2–3, T6: 2–3, setae on T7 indiscernible. Ovipositor subequal in length to midtibia.

Male. Unknown

Species group placement. E. strenua group.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

References

Dahms EC. 1983. A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: II. Preamble and Chalcidoidea species A - E with advisory notes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21: 1 - 255.

Girault AA. 1913. Some chalcidoid Hymenoptera from North Queensland. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 79, Abteilung A, Heft 6: 70 - 90.

Viggiani G. 1985 c. Additional notes and illustrations on some species of aphelinids described by A. A. Girault and A. P. Dodd in the genera Coccophagus Westwood, Encarsia Forst. and Prospaltella Ashm. (Hym.: Chalcidoidea). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria '' Filippo Silvestri' ', Portici 42: 233 - 255.