Encarsia maura, Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007

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 : 2196-2197

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFEA-8F3D-EA9C-FF64FEC9FE3A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Encarsia maura
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

56. Encarsia maura n. sp.

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Description (holotype)

Female. Colour: head and mesosoma mostly brown except mesoscutal midlobe posteriorly and posterolaterally, axilla posteriorly, scutellum light brown. Antenna yellow. Metasoma dark brown, apex of last tergite pale. Fore wing hyaline with brown band behind marginal vein, becoming fainter proximally. Legs yellow.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel longer than F1 (1.36). F1 1.69 times as long as its maximum width, distinctly shorter than F2 (0.54) and F3 (0.58). F2 slightly longer than F3 (1.08). Midlobe of mesoscutum with eight setae arranged symmetrically. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of about the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae distinctly smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing about 2.3 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.26 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with seven setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia clearly longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.68). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 3, T6: 2, T7 with five setae. Ovipositor subequal in length to midtibia and 1.26 times as long as clava.

Male. Unknown

Species group placement. E. strenua group.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales.

Host. Unknown.

Material examined

New South Wales: Holotype ♀, Point Lookout, New England National Park (30 ° 299S, 152 ° 259E), 12 February 1984 (I. D. Naumann), ex ethanol ( ANIC) . Paratype ♀, same data as holotype .