Trisecodes Delvare & LaSalle

Gumovsky, Alex, 2014, A new species of Trisecodes from the Afrotropics (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), Zootaxa 3852 (5), pp. 553-561 : 554

Trisecodes Delvare & LaSalle

Trisecodes Delvare & LaSalle, 2000: 305 . Type species: Trisecodes agromyzae Delvare & LaSalle, 2000 , original designation (type series studied, BMNH, Fig. 4 ).

Diagnosis. Tarsi 3-segmented; antenna with 3 short, transverse funicular segments and 2-segmented clava; subtorular grooves present, diverging downwards; frontal sulcus angulate, V-shaped, placed far below median ocellus; scrobal grooves disconnected from each other; notauli complete, impressed; fore wing with characteristic pattern of hairlines originating from stigmal vein and bare areas above them; metasoma petiolate.

Biology. The type species of this genus is recorded as a larval parasitoid of agromyzid flies on various host plants ( Delvare & LaSalle 2000).

Distribution. Neotropics ( Delvare & LaSalle 2000) and Afrotropics ( Gumovsky et al. 2006; present).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Trisecodes agromyzae Delvare & LaSalle, paratype, SEM. A. Habitus in lateral view. B. Head and mesosoma in dorsal view (black arrows point to median groove on mesoscutum and scutellum). C, sculpture of dorsum of mesosoma.