Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, 1982

Fig. 3A-G

Copidosoma clavatum Myartseva, 1982: 26.

Material examined.

China: 3♀♀, card mounted, Xinjiang, Ruoqiang, Altun Mountain Nature Reserve, 37°58′30.15″N, 88°58′25.15″E, Altitude: 3489 m, 14.VII.2020. Coll. Shun-Gang Luo ; 2♀♀, 36°58′10.89″N, 90°14′44.19″E, Altitude: 4021.95 m, 21.VII.2020. Coll. Shun-Gang Luo , by yellow pan trapping (all depo-sited in ICXU).

Diagnosis.

Female. Length 1.12-1.45 mm (Fig. 3A), body ink blue, with blue-purple metallic luster; ocelli silver, eyes argenteous; antenna and leg dark brown; tibiae concolorous with body, trochanter, distal tibiae and tarsi yellow (Fig. 3E-G); forewing hyaline, venation dark brown. Head width equal to its height, ocelli forming an obtuse angle range from 96-105°, OOL about 1.55 × OCL, torulus below the ventral margin of eye, F1-F6 equal in length, gradually widen towards the end, scape less than 6 × as long as width, clava 3-segmented, with slight oblique truncation (Fig. 3D); mandible tridentate, with median tooth longest. Mesoscutum with honeycomb reticulate, axillae separated apically (Fig. 3B); linea calva complete, postmarginal vein punctate (Fig. 3C); mesotibial spur 0.87 × basitarsus (Fig. 3F). The exerted ovipositor obviously shorter than mesotarsus.

Male. Unknown.

Hosts.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Xinjiang) new record; India (Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal) (Kazmi and Hayat 2012), Turkmenistan (Trjapitzin 1989).

Comments.

The similar species C. aretas can be separated from this species by the body color dark green, funicle elongated distally, scape more than 6 × as long as width, clava without oblique truncation, and forewing linea calva interrupted posteriorly (Trjapitzin 1989).