The European species of Foersterella Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae), including the description of two new species
Author
Hansson, Christer
text
Zootaxa
2016
4137
4
561
568
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.8
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1175-5326
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Foersterella erdoesi
Bouček
Figs 2, 6
,
7, 13
Foersterella erdoesi
Bouček, 1958
: 69
.
Holotype
female in HNHM, not examined.
Material
.
Type
material: 2♀
paratypes
of
F. erdoesi
(
BMNH
). Additional material (6♀,
21♂
):
England
(
1♂
BMNH
);
Romania
(2♀,
3♂
BMNH
);
Sweden
(4♀,
17♂
BMNH
,
MZLU
).
Diagnosis
.
Male
. Antenna (
Figs 2, 6
,
7
): F1–3 each 1.2×, and F6 0.7× as long as wide; antennal clava (in widest part) 2.0× as wide as greatest width of pedicel; F1–6 yellowish-brown, C1 dark brown, C2 and C3 pale brown (pale part more distinct on ventral side of clava); face with rather dense setation (
Fig. 6
).
Female
. Gaster elongate, 2.0–2.4× (mean 2.18, n = 7) as long as wide, with apex pointed (
Fig. 13
).
Host
. Endoparasitoid in eggs of
Cassida viridis
L. (
Coleoptera
:
Chrysomelidae
) (record checked).
Distribution
.
Hungary
(
Bouček 1958
),
Romania
,
Sweden
,
United Kingdom
(all records checked).