Encarsia berlesei (Howard)

Suh, Soo-Jung, 2021, Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the white peach scale, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) on Prunus salicina Lindl. (Rosales: Rosaceae) in South Korea, Insecta Mundi 2021 (885), pp. 1-5 : 2

2. Encarsia berlesei (Howard)

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Description. Body generally brown to dark brown except posterior mesoscutum and posterior mesosoma yellow; forewing hyaline, slightly infuscated below marginal vein; antenna eight-segmented, F1 (flagellar segment) about twice as long as wide, slightly longer than F2, F3–F6 with longitudinal sensilla; placoid sensilla on scutellum separated by about twice their diameter; mid lobe of mesoscutum with 7–8 setae; ovipositor about as long as middle tibia and basitarsus combined; tarsi five-segmented.

Material examined. Korea. GB: 500 Obong-ri, Nam-myeon, Gimcheon-si, 2 females, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 24-iii-2020 (S.J. Suh); 119, Hyeoksin 8-ro, Gimcheon-si, 2 females, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 5-iv- 2020 (S.J. Suh); 308 Obong-ri, Nam-myeon, Gimcheon-si, 1 female, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 1-vii-2020 (S.J. Suh).

Figures

Figures 1–6. Five species of parasitoids associated with Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) on Japanese plum trees in South Korea. 1) Parasitoid emergence holes in scale covers of P. pentagona (white peach scale). 2) Aphytis proclia (Walker), female. 3) Encarsia berlesei (Howard), female. 4) Marietta carnesi (Howard), female. 5) Pteroptrix orientalis (Silvestri), female. 6) Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius, female.