Marietta carnesi (Howard)

Suh, Soo-Jung, 2021, Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the white peach scale, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) on Prunus salicina Lindl. (Rosales: Rosaceae) in South Korea, Insecta Mundi 2021 (885), pp. 1-5 : 4

3. Marietta carnesi (Howard)

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Description. Body yellow to silvery white; forewing with hyaline cells or infuscated patterns, without hyaline cells along margin and apex; antenna six-segmented (1,1,2,2), scape slender, about 6.0× as long as broad; midlobe of mesoscutum with 14 to 16 setae; gasteral dorsum infuscate brown with sides from base to apex silvery white and a narrow dark brown cross-band on tergum I to V extending to silvery sides, a dark spot on each of silvery sides; legs whitish to pale yellow, with dark brown complete or incomplete bands, tarsi five-segmented.

Material examined. Korea. GB: Bongcheon 2-ri, Nam-myeon, Gimcheon-si, 3 females, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 12-v-2020 (S.J. Suh).

Remarks. This species is a hyperparasitoid.

Figures

Figures 1–6. Five species of parasitoids associated with Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) on Japanese plum trees in South Korea. 1) Parasitoid emergence holes in scale covers of P. pentagona (white peach scale). 2) Aphytis proclia (Walker), female. 3) Encarsia berlesei (Howard), female. 4) Marietta carnesi (Howard), female. 5) Pteroptrix orientalis (Silvestri), female. 6) Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius, female.