Encarsia olgae, 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 : 2206-2207

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701550766
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D3887DF-FFE4-8F37-EA92-FCBFFB43FB0E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Encarsia olgae
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

63. Encarsia olgae n. sp.

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Description

Female. Colour: head and body entirely yellow except stemmaticum with small brown spots adjacent to ocelli and pronotum partly brown. Fore wing hyaline. Legs yellow.

Morphology: Maxillary palp two-segmented. Stemmaticum with rugose-reticulate surface sculpture. Antennal formula 1,1,3,3. Pedicel shorter than F1 (0.73). F1 3.6–3.8 times as long as its maximum width, longer than F2 (1.16) and slightly longer than F3 (1.10). F2 slightly shorter than F3 (0.95). Flagellomeres with the following numbers of sensilla: F1: 0, F2: 1, F3: 1, F4: 2, F5: 2, F6: 2. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 14–16 setae, side lobes with three setae each. Scutellar sensilla close together, separated by a distance of about the width of a sensillum. Distance between anterior pair of scutellar setae smaller than between posterior pair. Fore wing 2.4–2.5 times as long as width of disc. Marginal fringe 0.15–0.16 times as long as width of disc. Basal cell with 15–16 setae, costal cell distally with two setae. Submarginal vein with five to six setae, marginal vein anteriorly with six to eight setae. Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Apical spur of midtibia longer than half the length of the corresponding basitarsus (0.77–0.83). Tergites laterally with the following numbers of setae: T1: 0, T2: 1, T3: 1, T4: 1, T5: 3(–4), T6: 3(–4), T7 with four setae. Ovipositor shorter than midtibia (0.88) and 1.85 times as long as clava. Third valvula 0.24–0.32 times as long as second valvifer.

Male. Unknown.

Species group placement. E. strenua group.

Distribution. Australia: Western Australia.

Host. Aleyrodidae .

Material examined

Western Australia: Holotype ♀, Beedelup National Park , 15 November 1999 (S. and O. Schmidt), ex soft-bodied whitefly ( ANIC) . Paratype 1♀, same data as holotype ( ZSMG) .