Entedonomphale mira (Girault, 1920) 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 : 278-279

Entedonomphale mira (Girault, 1920) , comb. n.

Figs 22, 23

Entedonastichus mirus Girault, 1920 b: 143 . (Type locality: Irvinebank , Queensland, Australia) Entedonastichus mirus Girault : Dahms 1984: 827; Boucek 1988: 733; Loomans & van Lenteren 1995:

146–148, 197.

Diagnosis: Female. Body dark brown to black, smooth and shining; appendages light brown to dark brown.Antenna ( Fig. 22 ) with scape expanded in the middle; F1 notably smaller than F2, a little longer than wide and with 1 sensillum; F2 about as long as wide and with several sensilla; clava (collapsed in the holotype but oval in the correctly dried specimen from near Ellis Beach, Queensland) with several short sensilla. Notauli indistinct. Forewing disc with a few scattered setae behind marginal vein, more densely setose in the broadest part beyond venation, notably pigmented (with brown) in the middle, the dark spot narrowing distad of stigmal vein and reaching wing apex ( Fig. 23 ). Petiole about as long as wide. Ovipositor not exserted .

Male. Unknown.

Type material examined: Parts of the holotype female on slide [ QMBA], labelled: 1. “ Holotype T.9263. E.C.D. 1984”; 2. “ Entedonastichus mirus Girault ^ type”; 3. “ Eulophomorpha flavicornis Dodd. ^ head, ant.”. The type slide has fragments of two broken coverslips with both antennae and one forewing of the holotype of Entedonastichus mirus ; the remaining body parts (mesosoma, metasoma, several legs, and at least one hind wing, which is stuck in glue) are on a card at QMBA, labelled: 1.” Entedonastichus mirus Girault ^ Type”; 2. “ HOLOTYPE. T.9263 E. C. D. 1984”.

Other material examined: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 10 km N Ellis Beach, 25.iv.1988, E.C. Dahms, G. Sarnes, 1^ [ QMBA]. Ipswich District , 3.vi.1980, J.S. Noyes, 1^ (det. Z. Boucek) [ BMNH] .

Distribution: Australia (Queensland).

Hosts: Unknown.

Figures

Figs 22, 23. Entedonomphale mira, female (holotype): (22) antenna, (23) forewing. Scale lines = 0.1 mm.