Chartocerus subaenus (Förster)

Suh, Soo-Jung, 2018, Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reared from Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Republic of Korea, Insecta Mundi 612, pp. 1-6 : 4

8. * Chartocerus subaenus (Förster) ( Fig. 6 )

Diagnosis. Body glossy black except all tarsi yellowish, fore tibiae pale; mandible bidentate; antenna seven-segmented (1,1,4,1), funicle four-segmented; pronotum half or less as long as mesoscutum; forewing with alternating broad hyaline and dark bands, hindwing hyaline; forewing with fringe shorter than 1/2 width of the wing; basitarsus of middle leg clearly shorter than tibia; metasoma subequal in length to the head and mesosoma combined; male genitalia about 1/2 length of middle tibia, ventral surface of phallobase with distinct longitudinal thickening at midline, running from between bases of digiti almost to apex, digitus with apical denticle about 1/3 its length; tarsi five-segmented.

Material examined. Korea. GB: 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu-si, 1 female and 1 male, ex. P. cockerelli on L. obtusifolium , 27-vii-2014 (S.J. Suh) .

Remarks. This species is recorded for the first time in Korea.

Figures

Figures 1–6. Six species of parasitoids associated with Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) in Korea. 1) Aphytis japonicus DeBach and Azim, male. 2) Encarsia berlesei (Howard), female. 3) Marietta carnesi (Howard), female. 4) Pteroptrix sp. 2, male. 5) Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius, female. 6) Chartocerus subaenus (Förster), female.