A taxonomic study of Chinese species of Copidosomopsis Girault (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)
Author
Yu, Fang
Author
Zhang, Yan-Zhou
Author
Zhu, Chao-Dong
Author
Tu, Li-Hong
text
Zootaxa
2010
2490
55
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195582
8d603f0c-b816-4c18-b696-7f6063037976
1175-5326
195582
Copidosomopsis meridionalis
Kazmi & Hayat
(
Figs 7, 8
)
Copidosomopsis meridionalis
Kazmi & Hayat, 1998
: 329
.
Holotype
Ƥ, BMNH, examined by ZYZ.
Description.
Female
. Body length
0.75−1 mm
. Body dark brown, with slight blue green sheen, particularly on head and dorsum of thorax; antenna dark brown; tegula dark brown; legs dark brown except fore femora and fore tibia broadly, apices of mid femora, mid tibia generally, base of hind femora and about apical 1/3 of hind tibia, and basal 4 tarsal segments of all legs yellow.
Head. Head in dorsal view about 2.1× as wide as frontovertex; ocelli forming an angle of about 100º; antenna (
Fig. 7
) with scape about 6× as long as broad, F1 about 1.5× as long as broad, clava solid, obliquely truncate at apex, the truncated part occupying nearly 2/3 clava length.
Thorax. Mesoscutum with raised sculpture of polygonal cells, scutellum with same sculpture but sculpture in about apical 1/3 shallow; fore wing about 2× as long as broad (82/40), venation as in
Fig. 8
.
Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths not exserted.
Male
. Unknown.
Host.
Unknown.
Distribution.
China
(new record),
India
(
Kazmi & Hayat 1998
).
Material examined.
1 Ƥ, Sichuan, Dujiangyan,
9.viii.2006
, coll. DY Huang; 1 Ƥ, Guangxi, Napo,
10.iv.1998
, coll. CD Zhu; 1 Ƥ, Hainan, Qiongzhong,
26.iii.2002
, coll. YZ Zhang; 2 Ƥ, Hainan, Jianfeng Ling,
iv.1984
, coll. DX Liao.