Pentelicus (Females)

Manickavasagam, S. & Chaitanya, T. Krishna, 2015, Description of three new species of Pentelicus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from India, with a key to world species, Zootaxa 3946 (2), pp. 221-232 : 222

Key to world species of Pentelicus (Females)

(Modified from Zhang, Xiao & Huang 2005)

1. Frontovertex with large, deep setigerous punctures separated by their own diameter or less ( Fig. 8 )..................... 2

- Frontovertex with sparse, shallow punctures separated by more than their own diameter ( Figs 2 , 14 )...................3

2. Fore wing hyaline; antenna dark brown except scape honey-yellow [ USA]........................ .. P. aldrichi Howard

- Fore wing infuscate behind submarginal vein, along leading margin beyond venation, and faintly in centre of disc ( Fig. 10 ); antenna dark brown with apex of scape and F6 yellow ( Fig. 9 ) [ India]........................... .. P . punctatus sp. nov.

3. Antenna with clava distinctly obliquely truncate apically, the truncate part about half or more dorsal length of clava ( Fig. 15 ).....................................................................................................4

- Antenna with clava rounded apically or only apical segment obliquely truncate, the truncate part less than one-third dorsal length of clava ( Fig. 3 ).................................................................................. 8

4. Antennal scape cylindrical, more than 5× as long as wide [ China]........................ P. similis Zhang, Xiao & Huang

- Antennal scape flattened, less than 4 × as long as wide ( Fig. 15 )................................................. 5

5. Body generally orange; scape 2× as long as wide [ Australia].................................. P. aeneifrons (Girault)

- Body dark brown to green or blue ( Figs 13, 14 ); scape 3× as long as wide ( Fig. 15 )................................. 6

6. Scape expanded to greatest extent in apical third [ China]........................... P. orientalis Zhang, Xiao & Huang

- Scape evenly, convexly expanded with its maximum width at about middle ( Fig. 15 )................................ 7

7. Funicle dark brown [ India]........................................................ P. bharatensis Hayat & Khan

- Funicle with F6 and F5 ventroapically yellow, and F4 ventrally light brown ( Fig. 15 ) [ India]........ P. depunctatus sp. nov.

8. F1 yellow; fore wing infuscate basally and with an infuscate streak below parastigma [ USA]......... P. varicornis (Girault)

- F1 brown or ventrally yellow and dorsally brown; fore wing infuscate behind submarginal vein but not behind parastigma..9

9. Scape basally and apically yellowish; F4 and F6 whitish [ USA]............................... P. confusus (Ashmead)

- Scape with outer surface basally brown laterally up to midpoint, and inner surface brown in basal half and yellow in apical half ( Fig. 3 ); F1−F5 ventrally yellow and dorsally light brown, F6 fully yellow ( Fig. 3 ) [ India].......... .. P. funiculatu s sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURES 7 − 9. Pentelicus punctatus sp. nov., ♀ holotype: 7, habitus image; 8, head frontal view; 9, antenna inner aspect.

FIGURES 1 − 3. Pentelicus funiculatus sp. nov., ♀ holotype: 1, habitus image; 2, head frontal view; 3, antenna.

FIGURES 13 − 15. Pentelicus depunctatus sp. nov., ♀ holotype: 13, habitus image; 14, head frontal view; 15, antenna.

FIGURES 10 − 12. Pentelicus punctatus sp. nov., ♀ paratype: 10, fore wing; 11, dorsal view of nota; 12, ovipositor.