Euplectrus liparidis Ferriere, 1941

Hansson, Christer & Schmidt, Stefan, 2018, Revision of the European species of Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with a key to European species of Euplectrini, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 67, pp. 1-35 : 18

Euplectrus liparidis Ferriere

Figures 36-38

Euplectrus liparidis Ferrière, 1941:43. Holotype female in NHM, examined.

Diagnosis.

Female with frons below level of toruli completely pale, pale area reaching from eye to eye (Fig. 38 ); midlobe of mesoscutum without median groove or carina (Fig. 37 ); reticulation on scutellum with elongate meshes (Fig. 37 ); without groove between dorsellum and scutellum (Fig. 37 ); female gaster with pale area in anterior part as a round spot about as wide as ½ the width of gaster (Fig. 37 ).

Hosts.

From larva of Lymantria dispar (L.) ( Erebidae ) ( Ferrière 1941). This host is odd as the larvae are hairy, whereas larvae of all other hosts accounted for in this article are naked.

Distribution.

Algeria ( Ferrière 1941), Czech Republic & Italy ( Zhu and Huang 2003).

Genetic data.

No specimens of the species were available for genetic analysis.

Figures

Figures 36 - 41. Euplectrus spp.: 36 - 38 E. liparidis Ferriere, holotype female 36 habitus lateral 37 habitus dorsal 38 head frontal 39 - 41 E. phthorimaeae Ferriere, holotype female 39 habitus lateral 40 habitus dorsal 41 head frontal.