Encarsia farinaria, 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 : 2163-2164

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFCB-8F1A-EA9A-FF64FC2FFD9B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Encarsia farinaria
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

34. Encarsia farinaria n. sp.

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Description (holotype)

Female. Colour: head and body yellow, pronotum and axilla partly brown. Metasoma yellow, third valvula suffused with brown. Antenna yellow. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow.

Morphology: antennal formula 1,1,4,2. Pedicel slightly longer than F1 (1.1). F1 longer than its maximum width (1.83), shorter than F2 (0.77) and F3 (0.79). F2 subequal in length to F3. Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 0, F2: 1, F3: 1, F4: 1, F5: 1, F6: 1. Midlobe of mesoscutum with nine setae (usually probably eight or 10), side lobes with two setae each. Scutellar sensilla distantly placed (approximately five times the maximum width of a sensillum). Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae slightly smaller than distance between posterior pair. Fore wing narrow, 3.2 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.45 times as long as width of disc. Submarginal vein with two setae, marginal vein anteriorly with six setae. Basal cell with two setae. Tarsal formula 5-5- 5. Apical spur of midtibia more than half as long as corresponding basitarsus (0.71). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 2, T6: 2, T7 with four or five setae. Ovipositor subequal in length to midtibia. Third valvula half as long as second valvifer, third valvulae appearing truncate at apex.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. E. perflava group.

Distribution. Australia: Queensland.

Host. Unknown.

Material examined

Queensland: Holotype: ♀, Cockatoo C [ree]k Crossing, 17 km NW Heathlands , 7 June to 25 July 1992 (P. Zborowski, E. Nielsen), Malaise # 5, open forest ( ANIC).