Caenohomalopoda guamensis ( Fullaway, 1946 )

Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 2 (11), pp. 1-921 : 82

Caenohomalopoda guamensis ( Fullaway, 1946)

( Figs 164-166)

Pseudhomalopoda guamensis Fullaway, 1946:209-210 . Holotype E, Guam, USNM, not examined. Caenohomalopoda guamensis (Fullaway) ; Tachikawa, 1979:169.

DIAGNOSIS. Female (length about 1.0- 1.3mm): head with frontovertex dark blue-green; antenna ( Fig. 164) with F4 yellow contrasting with dark brown F1-F3; clava with base dark brown, middle dusky pale yellow, apex pale yellow-brown; mesoscutum dark metallic blue with purple reflections; scutellum coppery dorsally, very strongly metallic purple on side and apex; fore wing with a pattern of infuscate and hyaline areas as in Fig. 166; infuscate area below proximal part of parastigma about one-third width of parastigma length; infuscate line about half way between apex of venation and wing apex directed slightly towards wing base from wing margin; head about 2.5X as wide as frontovertex; antenna ( Fig. 164) with scape about 2.7X as long as broad, all funicle segments transverse, F1 smallest, subtrapezoidal in profile, remaining segments subquadrate in profile, clava about as long as funicle; fore wing ( Fig. 166) about 2.8-3.0X as long as broad, venation as in Fig. 165; exserted part of ovipositor about as long as mid tibial spur or 0.20-0.25X length of gaster. Male: Unknown

DISTRIBUTION. Guam, China (Fujian), USA (Hawaii); Costa Rica (new record).

HOSTS. Recorded as a parasitoid of Odonaspis greeni Cockerell ( Beardsley, 1976) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED.

USA 2E, Hawaii, Oahu, Honolulu , ex Odonaspis on bamboo, i.1969 and v.1969 (J.W. Beardsley) . COSTA RICA. 1E, Puntarenas, Res. Priv. Karen Mogensen, 9°52’N 85°03’W 305m, 16-17.ii.2020 (J.S. Noyes). Material in NHMUK .