Psilophrys parvulus Guerrieri and Viggiani

Japoshvili, Giorgi & Noyes, John S., 2006, The Western Palaearctic species of Psilophrys Mayr (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae), parasitoids of kermesids (Hemiptera, Coccoidea: Kermesidae) attacking oaks (Quercus spp.), Journal of Natural History 40 (29 - 31), pp. 1793-1800 : 1795-1796

Psilophrys parvulus Guerrieri and Viggiani

Psilophrys parvulus Guerrieri and Viggiani 1991, p 139 –150. Holotype ♀, Italy, DEZP, not examined.

Diagnosis

Female. Length 1.0– 1.1 mm. Body dark brown, slightly shiny; all legs dark brown. Head about 1.7× as wide as frontovertex; FV at narrowest point more than 2× as wide as long; scape about 1.4× as long as club and about 5× as long as wide; pedicel almost 1.7× as long as F1; OCL.OOL; ocelli forming obtuse angle; fore wing about 2.3× as long as wide and with marginal fringe at apex; stigmal vein proximally slightly bent, not straight. Ovipositor slightly exserted, exserted part at most as long as mid tibial spur.

Male. Similar to female except for genitalia, partially two-segmented clava and setae on funicle relatively longer, about as long as diameter of segments.

Material examined

Paratypes: Italy, 3♀, 3 „, Rispescia (GR), ex Kermes bacciformis on Quercus , 12 June 1968 (L. Santini). Material in BMNH.