Asecodes delucchii ( Boucek )

Li, Ming-Rui & Li, Cheng-De, 2021, A new species of Asecodes Foerster (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) and first record of A. reticulatum (Kamijo) from China, with a key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 1049, pp. 1-14 : 1

Asecodes delucchii ( Boucek)

Figs 19 , 20

Asecodes delucchii ( Bouček): Hansson 1996: 162.

Asecodes deluchii ( Bouček): Supartha and Ridland 2004: 3668 (misspelling).

Chrysocharoidea sp.: Graham 1963: 269.

Omphale sp.: Delucchi 1958: 241.

Teleopterus delucchii Bouček, 1971: 537.

Material examined.

4♀ [NEFU; 2 on cards, 2 on slides], China, Guizhou Province, Zunyi City , Suiyang County, 6.VIII.2020, Jun Wu, sweeping .

Diagnosis.

Female. Scape normal, not compressed; fore wing hyaline, without infuscate transverse band, and with three stigmal hairlines: two stigmal hairlines toward the apex of wing and one towards parastigma (Fig. 20 ).

Host.

Primary parasitoid of the peach leafminer, Lyonetia clerckella (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera , Lyonetiidae ) ( Adachi 1998) and the citrus leafminer Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton ( Lepidoptera , Phyllocnistidae ) ( Ujiye and Adachi 1995).

Distribution.

China (Guizhou (new record) and Gansu ( Zhang et al. 2007) Provinces), Japan ( Adachi 1998), India ( Jamali et al. 2021), Indonesia ( Supartha and Ridland 2004), Croatia ( Bouček 1977), Czechoslovakia, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia (pre-1991), Moldova ( Bouček 1971), Romania ( Hansson 2016).

Comments.

Asecodes delucchii can be easily separated from other species distributed in China by its characteristic fore wing. An Indian species, A. zhui Jamali having a similar fore wing was described by Jamali et al. (2021). Asecodes delucchii differs from A. zhui in having the fore wing about 2.4 times as long as wide (fore wing more than three times as long as wide in A. zhui ); with the longest marginal cilia 1/3-1/2 the maximum wing width (4/5 the maximum wing width in A. zhui ).

Figures

Figures 19, 20. Asecodes delucchii (Boucek), females 19 habitus in ventral view 20 fore wing. Scale bars: 100 μm.