Encarsia explorata (Silvestri)

Suh, Soo-Jung & Evans, Gregory A., 2016, A new record of the armored scale genus Carulaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from Korea and its aphelinid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), Insecta Mundi 2016 (466), pp. 1-6 : 3

3. Encarsia explorata (Silvestri) * ( Fig. 8 )

Material examined. Korea. CN: same data as A. japonicus , except 5 females and 3 males.

Diagnosis. Body generally yellow except pronotum, anterior mesoscutum, axillae, posterior mesosoma, T 1, T 4- T 6 and lateral sides of T 7 brown to dark; placoid sensilla on scutellum separated by more than twice their diameter; F1 quadrate and F1 shorter than F2; F2-F6 with longitudinal sensilla; mid lobe of mesoscutum with four setae; ovipositor shorter than middle tibia and basitarsus combined, third valvulae pale; all tarsi 5-segmented.

Figures

Figures 1–9. Carulaspis juniperi (Bouché) and four species of aphelinids. 1–5, Carulaspis juniperi (Bouché); 1, habitus, 2, female, 3, anterior and posterior spiracles, 4, perivulvar pores, 5, pygidium. 6, Aphytis japonicus DeBach and Azim, female. 7, Encarsia citrina (Craw), female. 8, Encarsia explorata (Silvestri), female. 9, Encarsia sp. nr. perniciosi (Tower), female.