Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Author
Boyadzhiev, Peter S.
Author
Antonov, Anton K.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1816
61
64
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274368
11d11f6c-30b8-4bc6-a887-4b20164771ab
1175-5326
274368
Entedonomphale postmarginalis
(
Shafee, Rizvi & Khan,
1988
)
,
comb. n.
(
Figs 5, 6
)
Euderomphale postmarginalis
Shafee, Rizvi & Khan
1988
:
2
(description, key [as
E. Postmarginalis
]),
3
(illustrations, figs D and E [as
E. Postmarginalis
]).
Type
locality: Bullandshahr, Uttar Pradesh,
India
.
Entedonastichus postmarginalis
(Shafee, Rizvi & Khan)
:
Hayat
et al.
2005
:
10
(
type
information).
Type
material examined.
Holotype
female [
ZDAMU
] dissected on two slides, as follows. Slide
1
(head, one antenna, mesosoma and most of metasoma, and legs (with some segments missing) [under two coverslips]), labeled:
1
. “Ref. No.
723
sp.
n.”,
2
. “
HOLOTYPE
Euderomphale postmarginalis
Shafee, Rizvi & Khan
det. M. Hayat,
2003
”; Slide
2
(one antenna, one forewing, and the ovipositor [under the same coverslip]), labeled:
1
. “
723
[in pencil] Ref. No
723
sp.
n.”,
2
. “
HOLOTYPE
parts
Euderomphale postmarginalis
Shafee, Rizvi & Khan
det. M. Hayat,
2003
”.
Diagnosis.
Body and appendages mostly dark brown. Toruli slightly below lover ocular line. Antenna (
Fig.
5
) with scape (not counting a small radicle)
4.1
x as long as wide, a little dilated basally and medially. Pedicel longer than funicle; F
1
a little smaller than F
2
,
1.1-1.5
x as wide as long, apparently without longitudinal sensilla; F
2
1.6
x as wide as long, at least with
1
longitudinal sensillum; clava entire,
1.6-1.7
x as long as wide. Mesosoma shorter than metasoma. Midlobe of mesoscutum with
1
pair of setae; anterior margin of scutellum slightly angulate. Forewing (
Fig.
6
) about
3.1
x as long as wide, with disc almost hyaline (with a slight brownish tinge throughout, perhaps a little more pronounced behind marginal and stigmal veins) and setose behind marginal and stigmal veins and beyond venation (more sparsely so behind base of marginal vein, and bare posterior of cubital row of setae); stigmal vein about as long as postmarginal vein; the longest marginal seta about
1
/
2
of maximal forewing width. Petiole longer than wide.
Entedonomphale postmarginalis
is undoubtedly a good species. In
Triapitsyn (
2005
)
,
E. postmarginalis
would key to the couplets together with the species that have a hyaline forewing (i.e.,
E. boccaccioi
S. Triapitsyn
from the
USA
,
E. bicolorata
(Ishii)
from
Japan
,
Germany
, and
Ukraine
, and
E. esenini
S. Triapitsyn
from
Madagascar
).
Entedonomphale postmarginalis
differs from all of them by the female antenna, both funicle segments of which are wider than long (
Fig.
5
).
Comments.
This species was described (and is still known) from a single female
holotype
“ex aleyrodid on
Citrus
sp.” (
Shafee et al.
1988
). The host record seems doubtful and thus needs verification.