Entedonomphale bicolorata ( Ishii, 1933 ) Triapitsyn, 2005

Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2005, Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 261-315 : 275-276

Entedonomphale bicolorata ( Ishii, 1933) , comb. n.

Figs 15, 16

Thripoctenus bicoloratus Ishii, 1933: 15 , 16, pl. I. (Type locality: Ikiriki , Nagasaki, Japan) Thripoctenoides gaussi Ferrière, 1958: 321–323 . Syn. n.

Ceranisus bicoloratus (Ishii) : Boucek & Askew 1968: 137; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995: 129, 130, 196. Thripoctenoides gaussi Ferrière : Boucek & Askew 1968: 138; Trjapitzin 1978: 426.

Entedonastichus gaussi (Ferrière) : Boucek 1988: 733; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995: 146–149, 197.

Diagnosis: This species was well described and illustrated (habitus only) by Ishii (1933). Female. Body dark brown to black, shining; appendages generally brown to dark brown except F1 white. Head with vertexal suture a little sinuate. Antenna (Fig. 15) with scape relatively slender, a little wider in basal half than in distal half, about 4.5 x as long as wide; pedicel slightly longer than wide and about as long as F1 or F2; flagellar segments with numerous long setae and sensilla; F2 a little wider than F1, clava about 2 x as long as wide, about equal to combined length of funicle segments. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 2 pairs of setae. Forewing (Fig. 16) relatively wide, about 2.5 x as long as wide; longest marginal setae about 3/10 maximal width of forewing; disc hyaline, bare in basal 2/5 of the wing and densely setose distad of about mid-level of marginal vein. Hind wing about 7 x as long as wide, with about 3-4 irregular rows of setae. Coxae smooth. Petiole trapezoidal in dorsal view, about as long as wide. Ovipositor not exserted, occupying about 3/5 length of gaster; ovipositor length/metatibia length ratio about 1.2:1.

Male. Unknown.

Type material examined: 3 female? syntypes of T. bicoloratus were deposited in the collection of the Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station ( Ishii 1933) but as of now are lost (Loomans & van Lenteren 1995) .

Lectotype female of T. gaussi on a slide [MHNG], here designated to avoid possible confusion regarding the status of the type specimens of this species, labelled as follows: 1. “ Allemagne Wittental X.1957 - Gauss Ex. Liothrips setinodis ”; 2.“ Entedoninae : Thripoctenoides gaussi n. sp. Ch. Ferrière.”; 3. “[red] Thripoctenoides gaussi Ferrière LECTOTYPE ^ Des. by S. Triapitsyn 2002”; 4. “ Entedonomphale bicolorata (Ishii) ^ Det. S. Triapitsyn 2004”. Paralectotypes of T. gaussi (here designated): 3 females on 2 slides [MHNG] and 1 female on point [BMNH], same original label data as on the lectotype slide. An additional non-type slide in MHNG (same original labels as the lectotype) contains several pupae of T. gaussi as well as remains of the host.The type locality of T.gaussi is in Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: Ichenheim/Lahr according to Ferrière (1958) but Wittental (?Stegen-Wittental) according to the labels on the original cotype slides.

Other material examined: JAPAN: Shimane Pref. (Honshu Island): Izumo (“Host: Liothrips wasabiae Haga et Ok. ”): em. 1.iv.1990, T. Murai, 4^ [HFES]; em. 1.iv.1991, T. Murai, 5^ [HFES, UCRC]. Sada-Cho, 13.ix.1990, T. Murai, 8^ (“ex. Liothrips wasabiae on Japanese horse reddish”) [UCRC].

Distribution: Japan, Germany, and Ukraine (Loomans & van Lenteren 1995, as E. gaussi ).

Hosts: Various Phlaeothripidae listed by Loomans and van Lenteren (1995) for Entedonastichus gaussi as well as Liothrips wasabiae Haga & Okajima (T. Murai pers. comm.; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995) and also an unidentified thrips species ( Ishii 1933).

Comments: The examined specimens from Japan and Germany are identical, hence this obvious synonymy of T. gaussi under E. bicolorata .