Encarsia kalamundae, Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFC6-8F09-EAC3-FCB0FD8AFB4A |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Encarsia kalamundae |
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sp. nov. |
43. Encarsia kalamundae n. sp.
( Figures 138–140 View Figures 138–140 )
Description (holotype)
Female. Colour: head and body entirely yellow except pronotum partly brown, mesoscutal side lobe anteriorly with brown spot, and stemmaticum with small brown spots adjacent to ocelli. Fore wing hyaline. Antenna brown except radicle yellow. Legs yellow.
Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel shorter than F1 (0.72). F1 2.7 times as long as its maximum width, subequal in length to F2 and F3. Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 1, F2: 3, F3: 2, F4: 3, F5: 3, F6: 4. Maxillary palp twosegmented. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 16 setae, side lobes with three setae each. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of less than the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.66 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.19 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with six or seven setae. Submarginal vein with five setae, marginal vein anteriorly with seven or eight setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia shorter than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.37). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 3, T6: 3, T7 with four setae. Ovipositor slightly shorter than midtibia (0.89) and 1.33 times as long as clava. Third valvula 0.28 times as long as second valvifer.
Male. Unknown.
Species group placement. E. strenua group.
Distribution. Australia: Western Australia.
Host. Unknown.
Material examined
Western Australia: Holotype: ♀, Kalamunda National Park , ca 30 km E Perth, 26 December 1986 (J. S. Noyes) ( ANIC).
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Australian National Insect Collection |
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