Parasitoids complex of Asphondylia conglomerata De STEFANI (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on the Mediterranean Saltbush, Atriplex halimus L. (Chenopodiaceae) in Egypt, with descriptions of new species from Eulophidae and Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Author
Do, M.
Author
A. K
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2013
2013-12-20
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10.5281/zenodo.5346157
0253-116X
5346157
Torymus phillyreae
RUSCHKA
(
Fig. 7
a-e)
Torymus phillyreae
RUSCHKA 1921: 340-341
.
Lectotype
female, (NHMW), designated by GRAHAM & GIJSWIJT (1998).
The synonym list host list were given by GRAHAM & GIJSWIJT (1998).
D i s t r i b u t i o n.
France
,
Great Britain
,
Ireland
,
Netherlands
,
Sweden
(
GRAHAM & GIJSWIJT 1998).
D i a g n o s i s. Body (
Fig. 7 a
) with ovipositor sheaths as long as metasoma plus half of mesosoma; index 2.0. Head with OOL 1.27 OD; POL 1.8 times OOL. Malar space 0.4 length of eye. Mouth 1.5 malar space. Antenna (
Fig. 7 e
) with anellus slightly broader than long. Scutellum (
Fig. 7 b
) finely reticulated; propodeum (
Fig. 7 c
) finely longitudinally striated; Hind coxa 1.8 times as long as broad, with many setae dorsally in basal half. Forewing (
Fig. 7 d
) with basal cell, on upper surface of forewing, with a row of setae below SM; spurs of hind tibia not so very unequal, the shorter spur 0.8 the length of the longer spur; tip of hypopygium extending ¼ along gaster.
S t u d i e d m a t e r i a l s:
10 females
,
Egypt
:
Alexandria
, Alameria District,
30°59'54"N
, 29°49'70"E,
09.iii. 2013
, emerged from galls of
Asphondylia conglomerata
on
Atriplex halimus
, leg. Ayman Kh. Elsayed, Cat. No:005-04 (MKUI).
Fig. 7
:
Torymus phillyreae
RUSCHKA.
Female: (
a
) body, in lateral view; (
b
) head and part of mesosoma; (
c
) antenna; (
d
) forewing; (
e
) metasoma.
B i o l o g y. It may be a hyperparasitoid or parasitoid on
Asphondylia conglomerata
on
Atriplex halimus
and has low level of parasitism during the period from January to April.
D i s t r i b u t i o n.
Egypt
,
Alexandria
.