Aphytis proclia (Walker)

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

1. Aphytis proclia (Walker)

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Description. Body about 1 mm long, pale yellowish with fuscous markings; head with a transverse, strongly pigmented black bar on occiput, on each side of foramen; antennal scape pale, with a longitudinal fuscous stripe, pedicel and funicular segments fuscous, basal part of club usually somewhat paler, apex of club blackish; propodeal crenulae fairly numerous, narrow, elongate and nonoverlapping; centre of abdomen immaculate, short fuscous stripes on sides of tergites, tergite VII with a crossband; forewing usually about 2.6× as long as wide, marginal vein considerably longer than submarginal vein, with a delta-shaped area basad of speculum bearing 10–12 rows of 100–116 setae; ovipositor shaft about 1.5 × as long as the middle tibia.

Material examined. Korea. Gyeongsangbukdo (GB) 500 Obong-ri, Nam-myeon, Gimcheon-si, 2 females, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 24-iii-2020 (S.J. Suh); Bongcheon 2-ri, Nam-myeon, Gimcheon-si, 3 females, ex. P. pentagona on P. salicina , 12-v-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.