Copidosomopsis meridionalis Kazmi & Hayat

Yu, Fang, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Zhu, Chao-Dong & Tu, Li-Hong, 2010, A taxonomic study of Chinese species of Copidosomopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), Zootaxa 2490, pp. 55-62 : 57

Copidosomopsis meridionalis Kazmi & Hayat

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Copidosomopsis meridionalis Kazmi & Hayat, 1998: 329 . Holotype Ƥ, BMNH, examined by ZYZ.

Description. Female. Body length 0.75−1 mm. Body dark brown, with slight blue green sheen, particularly on head and dorsum of thorax; antenna dark brown; tegula dark brown; legs dark brown except fore femora and fore tibia broadly, apices of mid femora, mid tibia generally, base of hind femora and about apical 1/3 of hind tibia, and basal 4 tarsal segments of all legs yellow.

Head. Head in dorsal view about 2.1× as wide as frontovertex; ocelli forming an angle of about 100º; antenna ( Fig. 7 ) with scape about 6× as long as broad, F1 about 1.5× as long as broad, clava solid, obliquely truncate at apex, the truncated part occupying nearly 2/3 clava length.

Thorax. Mesoscutum with raised sculpture of polygonal cells, scutellum with same sculpture but sculpture in about apical 1/3 shallow; fore wing about 2× as long as broad (82/40), venation as in Fig. 8 .

Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths not exserted.

Male. Unknown.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. China (new record), India ( Kazmi & Hayat 1998).

Material examined. 1 Ƥ, Sichuan, Dujiangyan, 9.viii.2006, coll. DY Huang; 1 Ƥ, Guangxi, Napo, 10.iv.1998, coll. CD Zhu; 1 Ƥ, Hainan, Qiongzhong, 26.iii.2002, coll. YZ Zhang; 2 Ƥ, Hainan, Jianfeng Ling, iv.1984, coll. DX Liao.

Figures

FIGURES 1 − 8. 1 − 6, Copidosomopsis orientalis, female: 1, antenna; 2, fore wing; 3, fore leg; 4, mid leg; 5, hind leg; 6, ovipositor; 7 − 8, C. meridionalis, female: 7, antenna, 8, fore wing.