A new species, first report of a male and new distributional records for three species of Pteroptrix (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China Author Chen, Ye Author Li, Cheng-De text Biodiversity Data Journal 2017 5 12387 12387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e12387 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e12387 1314-2828--12387 Pteroptrix processa (Huang) 1991 Archenomus processus Huang (1991) : 396. Holotype female, China, Jiangsu, FACC, not examined. Archenomus processus : Huang (1994) : 114; Xu and Huang (2004) : 316. Pteroptrix processa : Viggiani and Ren (1993) : 237; Viggiani and Garonna (1993) : 61. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Xiu-Wei Liu ; sex: 1 female ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixprocessa; originalNameUsage: Archenomusprocessus Huang 1991; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Beijing City; municipality: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Ye Chen ; dateIdentified: 2016-11; Event: samplingProtocol: yellowpan trapping ; eventDate: 2012-05-09 ; Record Level: institutionID: NEFU Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Ye Chen; Chao Zhang ; sex: 1 male ; lifeStage: adult ; Taxon: scientificName: Pteroptrixprocessa; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Shaanxi; county: Ningshan; municipality: Guanghuojie Town; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng-De Li; Ye Chen ; dateIdentified: 2016-1; Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping ; Record Level: institutionID: NEFU Description Male. Body length 0.5 mm. Colouration similar to that of female, largely brown to dark brown. Antenna (Fig. 3a) with radicle 2.73 x as long as wide; scape 4.33 x as long as wide; pedicle slightly longer than wide and 0.63 x as long as F1; funicle segments with F2 shortest, F3 a little longer than F1. Mid-lobe of mesoscutum with 2 setae, propodeum distinctly salient posterior-medially and 3.6 x as long as metanotum. Fore wing (Fig. 3b) 2.8 x as long as wide, marginal fringe 0.48 x as long as the greatest width of wing. Genitalia as in Fig. 3c and 0.55 x as long as midtibia. Host Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) ( Hemiptera : Diaspididae ), ( Huang 1991 ). Distribution China (Fujian, Jiangsu, Beijing [new record], Shaanxi [new record]). Comments This species is unique for the genus in having the mid-lobe of mesoscutum with only 2 setae and propodeum distinctly salient posterior-medially. This is the first report for its male.