Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837)

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Karimpour, Younes, Delvare, Gérard & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2020, Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 710, pp. 1-35 : 7-8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.710

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3A0F9FD-53DA-4716-8218-9EE898C6CBFF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332953

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF4C30-FFD7-763C-6252-FDFF11D22F05

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837)
status

 

Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837) View in CoL

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Material examined

IRAN • 1 ♀; West-Azarbaijan Province , Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis ; HMIM GoogleMaps .

Remarks

Our specimen fits well the description given by Claridge (1958), but the head exhibits a faint metallicgreen tinge ( Fig. 3A, C View Fig ). Body mainly rufo-fuscous ( Fig. 3A View Fig ), funicle with three white segments, F6 black ( Fig. 3B View Fig ); mesonotum entirely greenish; fore wings mainly fuscous except basally and distally ( Fig. 3D View Fig ); propodeum and abdomen dark with blue-green reflections; scape approximately 5× as long as wide, funiclar segments almost quadrate, club slightly widened, truncate apically ( Fig. 3B View Fig ); scutellar ‘hair-brush’ well developed ( Fig. 3C View Fig ); gaster short, as long as thorax.

This species is widely distributed in the Palaearctic region ( Noyes 2020) and in Iran ( Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili 2010). Cheiloneurus paralia is a parasitoid of different mealybug families ( Asterolecaniidae Cockerell, 1896 , Cerococcidae Balachowsky, 1942 , Coccidae Stephens, 1829 , Eriococcidae Cockerell 1899 , Kermesidae Kosztarab, 1996 and Pseudococcidae ) on Poaceae such as Festuca rubra L. ( Claridge 1958; Noyes 2020). Therefore, it may be associated with a pseudococcid species on P. australis . It has been reported on Peliococcus kimmericus (Kiritshenko, 1940) on Lactuca serriola L. ( Asteraceae ) in Iran ( Fallahzadeh et al. 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae

Genus

Cheiloneurus

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