Cheiloneurus bouceki Anis & Hayat, 2002

Wang, Haiyang, Cui, Wenyu, Xi, Chunxiang, Cao, Xinyu, Li, Weiqiong & Zu, Guohao, 2024, A taxonomic study of Cheiloneurus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) from China, ZooKeys 1198, pp. 143-172 : 143

Cheiloneurus bouceki Anis & Hayat, 2002

Figs 7-9 , 17-22

Cheiloneurus bouceki Anis and Hayat 2002: 164-165. Holotype ♀, BMNH, India-Karnataka, not examined.

Material examined.

China - Guangxi • 26♀; Qinzhou, Beibu Culf University ; 21°53'53"N, 108°36'56"E; 24 m elev.; 06-13 Oct. 2019; Wen-Quan Zhen leg.; by Malaise trapping; TJAU-GX-CHE-001 to 026 .

Description.

Female. Length, excluding ovipositor, 1.78-1.89 mm. Body generally dark brown; gena with metallic-bluish green luster, frontovertex metallic-green luster, mandible with three acute teeth (Figs 5-7 ). Antenna mostly dark brown, an irregular white longitudinal strip in the middle of the scape. Mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutum, axilla, and scutellum with metallic green luster; mesopleuron and propodeum with metallic blue luster. Leg mostly dark brown, basal 1/3 of mid femora, mid tibia, and all tarsi white; frontovertex 0.08-0.12 × head width; eye height 1.17-1.33 × malar space (Fig. 17 ); antennal scape 5.05-5.80 × as long as wide; pedicel 2-2.19 × as long as wide and longer than F1, funicle 6-segmented, F1-F5 longer than width, F6 subquadrate, funicle with linear sensilla on F2-F6; clava 3-segmented, 2.31-2.43 × as long as width, shorter than F4-F6 combined (Fig. 18 ); fore wing 2.78-2.89 × as long as wide; linea calva not interrupted and open posteriorly (Fig. 20 ); ovipositor (Fig. 19 ) 1.29 × as long as mid tibia (Fig. 22 ), distinctly exserted.

Host.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi), India.

Comments.

This is the first record from China.

Figures

Figures 1 - 9. 1 - 3 Cheiloneurus axillaris ♀ 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 ventral habitus 4 - 6 Cheiloneurus boldyrevi ♀ 4 dorsal habitus 5 lateral habitus 6 ventral habitus 7 - 9 Cheiloneurus bouceki ♀ 7 dorsal habitus 8 lateral habitus 9 ventral habitus.

Figures 17 - 22. Cheiloneurus bouceki ♀ 17 head 18 antenna 19 mesosoma and metasoma 20 fore wing 21 hind wing 22 legs. Scale bars: 100 μm.