Cheiloneurus hadrodorys Anis & Hayat, 2002

Wang, Haiyang, Cui, Wenyu, Xi, Chunxiang, Cao, Xinyu, Li, Weiqiong & Zu, Guohao, 2024, A taxonomic study of Cheiloneurus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 143-172 : 143

Cheiloneurus hadrodorys Anis & Hayat, 2002

Figs 84-86 , 93-98

Cheiloneurus hadrodorys Anis and Hayat 2002: 138, 173-175. Holotype ♀, BMNH, Nepal.

Material examined.

China - Guangxi • 6♀; Qinzhou, Beibu Culf University ; 21°53'53"N, 108°36'56"E; 24 m elev.; 11-18 May 2019, 04-13 Jan. 2020; Wen-Quan Zhen leg.; by Malaise trapping; TJAU-GX-CHE-055 to 060 - Yunnan • 1♀; Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture ; 25°1'58"N, 101°32'45"E; 1773 m elev.; 01-15 Jun. 2022; Jia-Le Lv; by Malaise trapping; TJAU-YN-CHE-004 .

Description.

Female. Length, excluding ovipositor, 1.67-1.89 mm. Body generally brown; gena with metallic-green luster, frontovertex dark brown, mandible with three acute teeth. Antennal radicle brown, scape yellow, and inner margin brown, pedicel and F1-F3 with brown, F4 yellowish white, F5 brown, F6 and clava with dark brown. Pronotum mostly brown, but left and right margin with yellow; mesoscutum dark brown; axilla, scutellum and mesopleuron yellow, propodeum yellow, left and right margin dark brown with metallic-green luster. Leg yellowish white, except apical half of hind femora dark brown. Metasoma mostly brown to dark brown and basal quarter yellow; frontovertex (Fig. 93 ) 0.24-0.27 × head width; eye height 2.13-2.5 × malar space; antennal (Fig. 94 ) scape 5-5.48 × as long as wide; pedicel 2.07 × as long as wide and longer than F1, funicle 6-segmented, with F1-F6 widening gradually, clava 3-segmented, 2.25-2.25 × as long as wide, longer than F4-F6 combined; fore wing (Fig. 96 ) 3.47-3.71 × as long as wide; linea calva closed posteriorly by several lines of setae; mid tibial spur (Fig. 98 ) 0.36-0.38 × as long as mid tibia and longer than basitarsus, ovipositor (Fig. 95 ) 1.86-2.07 × as long as mid tibia, strongly exserted.

Host.

Pseudococcidae : Saccharicoccus sacchari ( Anis and Hayat 2002).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan, Guangxi), India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

Comments.

This is the first record from China.

Figures

Figures 84 - 92. 84 - 86 Cheiloneurus hadrodorys ♀ 84 dorsal habitus 85 lateral habitus 86 ventral habitus 87 - 89 Cheiloneurus nankingensis ♀ 87 dorsal habitus 88 lateral habitus 89 ventral habitus 90 - 92 Cheiloneurus quercus ♀ 90 dorsal habitus 91 lateral habitus 92 ventral habitus.

Figures 93 - 98. Cheiloneurus hadrodorys ♀ 93 head 94 antenna 95 mesosoma and metasoma 96 fore wing 97 hind wing 98 legs. Scale bars: 100 μm.