A revision of European species of the genus Tetrastichus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) using integrative taxonomy
Author
Hansson, Christer
The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom & Biological Museum (Entomology), Lund University, Lund, Sweden
christerdennis@gmail.com
Author
Schmidt, Stefan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5751-8706
SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Munich, Germany
schmidt.s@snsb.de
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2020
2020-12-16
8
59177
59177
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59177
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59177
1314-2828-8-e59177
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Tetrastichus halidayi (Graham, 1961)
Aprostocetus halidayi
Graham 1961
:5-8. Holotype ♀ in OUMNH, examined (Fig.
66
). Transferred to
Tetrastichus
by
Domenichini 1966
:94.
Description
See
Graham (1961)
.
Diagnosis
Mouth opening very wide, 2.0-2.2
x
malar space; mandibles very large, with outer tooth falcate and separated by a wide gap from the two small inner teeth, which are subacute and closely approximated; female gaster relatively long, 1.8
x
as long as wide with ovipositor sheaths protruding beyond apex of Gt7.
Distribution
(Former) Czechoslovakia, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom (
Graham 1961
), Russia and Switzerland (
new records
).
Ecology
Host
Agropus ahrensi
Germar (
Coleoptera
:
Chrysomelidae
) (
Graham 1991
).
Material examined
Type material: holotype ♀ (OUMNH). Additional material (219♀ 57♂): Germany 2♂ (UCRC), Russia 8♀ (MZLU), Sweden 197♀ 51♂ (MZLU, NHM, NHRS, ZSM), Switzerland 1♀ (ZSM), United Kingdom 13♀ 4♂ (NHM).