Encarsia rentzi, Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007

Schmidt, Stefan & Polaszek, Andrew, 2007, The Australian species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) and armoured scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Journal of Natural History 41 (33 - 36), pp. 2099-2265 : 2228-2229

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FF0A-8FDD-EA97-FE41FC83FC96
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Encarsia rentzi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

77. Encarsia rentzi n. sp.

( Figures 245–247 View Figures 245–247 )

Description (holotype)

Female. Colour: head and mesosoma yellow except pronotum and mesoscutal midlobe anteriorly brown. Gaster suffused with brown. Antenna yellow. Fore wing with slight infuscation behind marginal vein. Legs yellow.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel distinctly longer than F1 (1.62). F1 subquadrate, half as long as F2 and 0.57 times as long as F3. Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 0, F2: 2, F3: 2, F4: 2, F5: 2, F6: 3. Midlobe of mesoscutum with eight setae, arranged symmetrically, side lobes with two setae each. Scutellar sensilla separated by the distance of 2.5 times the maximum width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae smaller than distance between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.67 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.38 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with six setae. Basal cell with three setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia subequal in length to corresponding basitarsus. Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 2, T6: 2, T7 with five setae. Ovipositor 1.26 times as long as midtibia and 1.62 times as long as clava. Third valvula 0.45 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. Not established.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Material examined

Queensland: Holotype ♀, Curtain Fig, 2 km SSW Yungaburra (17 ° 179S, 145 ° 349E), 2 February 1988 (D. C. F. Rentz), stop A-2, pan trap ( ANIC).