Encarsia aureola (Girault)

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew, 2007, The Australian species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Journal of Natural History 41 (33 - 36), pp. 2099-2265 : 2130-2131

12. Encarsia aureola (Girault)

( Figures 41–43 )

Prospaltella aureola Girault 1913 [167], p 189. Lectotype ♀ [designated by Viggiani 1985c, p 237], Australia, Queensland, Brisbane (QMBA, type no. Hy. 1732, examined).

Coccophagus aureola (Girault) : Girault 1915[238], p 53, 56. Change of combination.

Prospaltella aureola Girault : Compere 1931, p 11; Dahms 1983, p 76 –77.

Encarsia aureola (Girault) : Viggiani 1985c, p 236 –237. Change of combination.

Redescription (lectotype)

Female. Colour: head and mesosoma orange-yellow, pronotum, mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly, axilla partly, mesopleuron and propodeum laterally brown. Metasoma brown. Antenna and legs dusky yellow. Fore wing hyaline.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel longer than F1 (1.50). F1 only slightly longer than broad (1.15), shorter than F2 (0.60) and F3 (0.58). F2 subequal in length to F3. Midlobe of mesoscutum with eight visible setae. Scutellar sensilla rather closely placed, approximately twice the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.5–2.6 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.30 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with four setae. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with six setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia subequal in length to corresponding basitarsus. Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 2, T6: 3, setae on T7 indiscernible. Ovipositor distinctly shorter than midtibia (0.77) and 1.13 times as long as clava. Third valvula about 0.36 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. Not established.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Figures

Figures 41–43. Encarsia aureola (Girault), holotype female. (41) Body of type specimen. (42) Head and antennae. (43) Fore wing.