Neopomphale LaSalle and Schauff

HANSSON, C. & LASALLE, J., 2003, Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Journal of Natural History 37 (6), pp. 697-778 : 717-718

Genus Neopomphale LaSalle and Schauff

Neopomphale LaSalle and Schauff, 1994: 249 . Type species: Euderomphale aleurothrixi Dozier , by original designation.

Diagnosis

Flagellum with one funicular and three claval segments in both sexes (figures 35–55); scrobes present, Y-shaped (figure 17); frontal suture usually present and complete, situated just below anterior ocellus (figure 18) (suture occasionally incomplete or absent); malar sulcus complete; eyes ± hairy (figure 17); mid lobe of mesoscutum with one pair of setae close to anterior margin (figures 4, 19); axillae fused to mesoscutum, i.e. the two sclerites not separated by a sulcus (figures 19–21); scutellum with one pair of setae (figures 4, 20); anterior part of gaster with a pale membranous area (figure 22).

Distribution

New World tropics and subtropics: Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Puerto Rico, USA, the West Indies.

Hosts Whiteflies in the subfamily Aleyrodinae ( Hemiptera : Aleyrodidae ).

Remarks

The species Pteroptrix australis Brèthes , described from Chile, was transferred to Neopomphale by LaSalle and Schauff (1994). Unfortunately, we have not been able to locate the type material of this species and regrettably cannot include it in this paper.