Anagyrus jucundus De Santis, 1964

Soler, José María, Falcó-Garí, José Vicente, Herrero, Berta & Aquino, Daniel Alejandro, 2021, The Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitoids of the obscure mealybug Pseudococcus viburni (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Spain, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4980 (1), pp. 83-98 : 89

Anagyrus jucundus De Santis

Figs. 11–13

Anagyrus jucundus De Santis, 1963: 59 . Holotype female. Argentina. Examined.

Diagnosis: Body length: 1490. Body color non-metallic, yellowish orange (Fig. 13), except head, scape except base and apical area, base of pedicel and first five funicle segments black; pronotum, distal half of tegulae, lateral and posterior margin of axillae, lateral margin of scutellum, metanotum, propodeum and almost all dorsum of metasoma blackish. F6 and clava white. Legs yellow, except hind tibiae and tarsi blackish. Wings sub-hyaline, venation brown and infuscated under apical third of submarginal, marginal and stigmal veins (Fig. 12). Forewing 2.69x as long as wide. Female antenna length/width proportions: scape 2.27x, pedicel: 2.4x, F1: 2.6x, F2: 2.4x, F3: 2.3x, F4: 2.3x, F5: 2.2x, F6: 1.8x, clava: 3.8x. F1–F6 decreasing in length and increasing in width (Fig. 11).

Material examined. Female (slide mounted), Holotype: Argentina, Tucumán, San Javier, 13.iii.1960, Exp. Museo La Plata, leg.; MLP Type number 1933/1.

Host. Unknown.

Comments. A. jucundus was described from a single female collected by sweeping on vegetation ( De Santis 1963). It is a Neotropical species, known only from Argentina, and shows similarities with the next described new species. This type specimen was compared with the literature description and key in De Santis (1963). Although this species appears in the literature indicated as described in 1964 ( Loiácono et al. 2001, Noyes 2018), the date on the cover of the publication is clearly the year 1963 ( De Santis 1963, CICBA 2015).