Encarsia protransvena Viggiani, 1985

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 : 2224-2226

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFF6-8FD8-EAD6-FB70FE3AFD97

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Felipe

scientific name

Encarsia protransvena Viggiani
status

 

75. Encarsia protransvena Viggiani View in CoL

( Figures 238–241 View Figures 238–241 )

Encarsia protransvena Viggiani 1985b, p 89 View in CoL . Holotype ♀, USA: Florida, Broward Co [unty]. F[or]t. Lauderdale , September 1984 (C. R. R. Thompson), ex Dialeurodes kirkaldyi View in CoL (DEUN, examined).

Encarsia strenua (Silvestri) View in CoL : Polaszek et al. 1992, p 388 (misidentification, in part, of E. protransvena View in CoL ), Booth and Polaszek 1996, p 73; Schauff et al. 1996, p 29 (misidentification of E. protransvena View in CoL ).

Description

Female. Colour: head yellow, body completely yellow without any dark pigmentation. Antenna yellow, apical one to two segments very slightly infuscate. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow.

Morphology: stemmaticum with reticulate surface sculpture ( Figure 240 View Figures 238–241 ). Antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel shorter than F1 (0.76). F1 3.09 times as long as its maximum width, subequal to F2 (1.06) and shorter than F3 (0.85). Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 0, F2: 0, F3: 1, F4: 2, F5: 2, F6: 2. Midlobe of mesoscutum with nine setae (in the single Australian specimen known one seta in an asymmetrical position, usually eight setae in specimens from elsewhere), side lobes with three setae each. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of about the width of a sensillum or less. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae distinctly smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.6 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.23 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with eight setae. Basal cell with nine setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.79). 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 longer than midtibia (1.41) and 2.46 times as long as clava. Third valvula 0.30 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. No males of the species were collected in the study area. For a description of E. protransvena males from elsewhere see Heraty and Polaszek 2000, p 160.

Species group placement. E. strenua group. Distribution. Australia: Christmas Island. Pacific Islands: French Polynesia, Fiji. USA: California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii. China, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Puerto Rico and Vieques Island, Spain.

Host. Not reared in the study area. The following hosts from elsewhere have been recorded ( Huang and Polaszek 1998; Schmidt et al. 2001): Aleurocanthus sp. , Aleurolobus sp. , Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) , Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) , D. citrifolii (Morgan) , D. kirkaldyi (Kotinsky) , Trialeurodes packardi (Morrill) , T. vaporariorum (Westwood) .

Material examined

Christmas Island: 1♀, Central Area Workshop (10 ° 299S, 105 ° 389E), 14 April 1989 (J. C. Cardale), ex ethanol ( ZSMG) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Aphelinidae

Genus

Encarsia

Loc

Encarsia protransvena Viggiani

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew 2007
2007
Loc

Encarsia protransvena

Viggiani G 1985: 89
1985
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