Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949)

Fischer, M. & Madl, M., 2008, Review of the Opiinae of the Malagasy Subregion (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1467-1489 : 1480-1481

Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949)

Opius insignipennis nov.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 379 (fig. 385), 380 (key), 382 (fig. 387, 389), 385

(descr., Madagascar). Opius sp. : WILLIAMS 1958: 112 (biol., Mauritius). Opius near insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : ORIAN & MOUTIA 1960: 144 (biol., Mauritius), 149

(biol.). Opius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : PAULIAN 1961: 199 (biol., Madagascar). Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : FISCHER 1963a: 174 (key), 179 (comb., descr.,

Madagascar), 180 (figs 5, 6). Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : ANONYMUS (det. Fischer) 1963: 338 (biol.,

Madagascar), 367 (biol., Madagascar). Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : FISCHER 1963b: 745 (cat.). Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : BRÉNIÈRE 1965: 349 (cat., Madagascar). Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : DUBOIS 1965: not seen. Austroopius insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : FISCHER 1971c: 124 (cat.), 136 (cat.). Opius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : ETIENNE 1973 not seen.

Austroopius? insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : WILLIAMS 1974: 3 (cat., Mauritius). Austroopius? insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : WILLIAMS 1980: 3 (cat., Mauritius). Opius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : ETIENNE 1982 not seen. Austroopius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : PAPP 1985: 213 (cat.), 214 (cat.). Austroopius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : FISCHER 1987: 551 (key), 556 (descr., figs 465,

466, Madagascar), 725 (cat.). Austroopius insignipennis GRANGER 1949 : RECKHAUS 1997: 357 (biol., Madagascar). Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : WHARTON 1997: 30 (comb., cat.). Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : WHARTON et al. 1999: 87 (tax., figs 3, 4, biol., Mauri-

tius, Réunion). Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : GANESHAN & WILLIAMS 2001: 7 (cat., Mauritius). Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : QUILICI, VINCENOT & FRANCK 2003: 129 (biol., photo

152, Réunion), 154 (cat.), 156 (cat., biol.), 158 (cat., biol.). Psyttalia insignipennis ( GRANGER 1949) : STIBBICK 2004: 50 (cat.).

H o s t s Ceratitis capitata (WIEDEMANN) , C. catoirii (GUÉRIN- MÉNEVILLE), Neoceratitis cyanescens (BEZZI) ( Diptera : Tephritidae ).

D i s t r i b u t i o n and new records: Madagascar: Prov. Antsiranana: Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez) – Prov. Antananarivo: Antananarivo, Mandraka – Prov. Toliara: Bekily – Réunion: Saint Gilles les Hauts (Musée de Villele) – Sainte Rose, ex C. capitata in cherries coffee 3 September 1974 leg. J. Etienne (NHMW) ― Mauritius: Esperance, Mon Desert, Réduit.

Endemic to the Malagasy Subregion. PAPP (1985: 187) recorded Psyttalia insignipennis from Singapore, but the material (Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest) should be checked for verification.