Signiphora flavella Girault, 1913

Zhao, Hui-Feng, Geng, Hui, Chen, Hai-Feng & Chen, Ye, 2025, A new species and two new distributional records of Signiphoridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from the canopy of the Xishuangbanna Rainforest, ZooKeys 1264, pp. 51-60 : 51-60

Signiphora flavella Girault, 1913

Figs 20 , 21

Signiphora flavella Girault, 1913: 214. Lectotype ♀, USNM, not examined.

Note.

Complete synonymy and citations, see Woolley and Dal Molin (2017).

Material examined.

• 2 ♀, Yunnan Province; Xishuangbanna; Mengla County; Menglun Town ; 21°53.62'N, 101°18.25'E; 523 m a. s. l.; 29 April. 2019; Z.-l. Bai, Z.-g. Chen, C. Wang, Y.-f. Tong, H. Yu leg.; LFNU Sc 20210707 , Sc 20210708 [on slides] ; • 2 ♀, Yunnan Province; Xishuangbanna; Mengla County; Menglun Town ; 21°53.89'N, 101°16.72'E; 568 m a. s. l.; 12 May. 2019; Z.-l. Bai, Z.-g. Chen, C. Wang, H. Yu leg.; LFNU Sc 20210709 , Sc 20210710 [on slides] ; • 3 ♀, Yunnan Province; Xishuangbanna; Mengla County; Menglun Town ; 21°54.24'N, 101°15.98'E; 541 m a. s. l.; 13 May. 2019; Z.-l. Bai, Z.-g. Chen, C. Wang, H. Yu leg.; LFNU Sc 20210711 – Sc 20210713 [on slides] .

Woolley and Dal Molin (2017) provided detailed descriptions for this species. We report this species from China for the first time and provide some photographs for reference.

Hosts.

According to Woolley and Dal Molin (2017), armoured scales ( Diaspididae ) are common hosts of this cosmopolitan species. For details, see Woolley and Dal Molin (2017) and UCD (2025).

Distribution.

China ( Yunnan) [ new record]. Other distributional data see Woolley and Dal Molin (2017).

Figures

Figures 20–21. Signiphora flavella, ♀. 20. Antenna; 21. Fore wing. Scale bars: 100 μm.