Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson, 1880)

Gadallah, Neveen S., Edmardash, Yusuf A., Mansour, Amany N. & Imam, Ahmed I., 2023, Parasitoid wasps (Ichneumonoidea) collected from faba bean fields, Kharga Oasis, New Valley, Egypt, with new records and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5389 (5), pp. 501-544 : 506

Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson, 1880)

Fig. 2 (A, B)

Material examined: 1♀, Kharga Oasis (New Valley) [25°14’02.8”N 30°31’32.2”E], May, 2022, white pan trap in Vicia faba .

Diagnosis. Antenna with 13 antennomeres, flagellomeres distinctly longer than wide; scape and pedicel dark reddish brown, flagellum dark brown; mesoscutum and scutellum dark reddish brown, propodeum pale yellowish brown, legs with coxae and trochanters bright yellow, remainder partly brown; metasoma with petiole slightly triangular, about 2.0× as long as wide at base; propodeum smooth and shiny; pterostigma slightly longer than vein R1; vein R1 not reaching wing margin.

Distribution in the MENA: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey.

Comments. Characters of the only female specimen collected agree with Starý’s key (1976: 61, couplet 4); they also agree with Rakhshani et al.’s key (2019: 73, couplet 100). In Algeria, it has been reported as a parasitoid of Aphis fabae attacking a number of economic crops among which is Vicia faba . In Egypt, it was first recorded by Adly and El-Gantiry (2014) as a parasitoid of the grape aphid Aphis illinoisensis (Shimer) attacking Vitis vinifera L. (laboratory population). The present study is the first record of L. testaceipes in association with V. faba in Egypt.

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FIGURE 2. Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson, 1880) (♀): A, lateral habitus; B, dorsal habitus.