Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author
Hayat, Mohammad
Author
Ahmad, Zubair
Author
Khan, Farmanur Rehman
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
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1
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journal article
36865
10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1
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1175-5326
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Anagyrus
sp. near
pseudococci
(Girault)
Material examined.
KSA
: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah,
vi.2012
, (MT), Coll. Z. Ahmad (1 ♀) (
ZDAMU
).
Comments.
Refer to
Noyes & Hayat (1994)
for identification of
A. pseudococci
; and
Triapitsyn
et al.
(2007)
for notes on this species based on biological and molecular comparisons of different geographical populations.
The single female from
Saudi
Arabia
has, as usual for
A. pseudococci
, F1 basally dark brown and apically white, but otherwise differs from the redescription of
A. pseudococci
given by
Noyes & Hayat (1994)
in the following characters: frontovertex anteriorly, inter-torular area and mouth margin pale brown; scutellum largely yellow, with only a faint, almost indistinguishable, brownish streak in middle; and frontovertex width 0.37× head width. It is very likely the Saudi Arabian specimen belongs to an undescribed species, but this is not certain, and should await further collection from
Saudi
Arabia
and detail study of the
A. pseudococci
-complex.