The Encarsia noyesi species-group (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) in the Neotropical region, with a key and description of the male of E. andrewi from Mexico Author Myartseva, Svetlana Nikolaevna Author Evans, Gregory Allyn Author Coronado-Blanco, Juana Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8387-7734 jmcoronado@uat.edu.mx text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2014 2014-09-26 39 33 46 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.39.7307 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.39.7307 1314-2607-39-33 36095194156C4E48BCA17E8F28052447 357ECC0FFFE4F85FFFEA9348FFAF6F16 575020 Encarsia aleurodici (Girault, 1916) Coccophagus aleurodici Girault, 1916: 401. Syntype females and male. Trinidad: British West Indies, xii.1914, F. W. Urich, ex. Aleurodicus on Theobroma bicolor , in USNM. Prospaltella aleurodici (Girault); Compere 1931 : 11. Dirphys aleurodici (Girault); Hayat 1989 : 59. Encarsiella aleurodici (Girault); Viggiani 1986 : 59. Encarsia aleurodici (Girault); Schmidt and Polaszek 2007 : 81. Diagnosis. This species was redescribed by Viggiani (1986) and Polaszek and Hayat (1992) . Female: body entirely dark brown. Fore wing hyaline. Legs dark brown except as follow: distal half of femur and tibia of fore leg, distal half of tibia of mid leg pale, hind tibia brown-yellow, all tarsi pale. Antennal (Fig. 1 ) radicle, pedicel, first segment of funicle and club dark brown, scape light yellow with brown dorsal margin of distal half, second segment pale brown, third segment yellow. Third valvula pale yellow. Mouth fossa narrower than width of frontovertex at front ocellus. Mid lobe of mesoscutum, scutellum and axillae with strong imbricate/reticulate sculpture. Ovipositor about as long as mid tibia. Male with pedicel of antenna (Fig. 2 ) longer than wide and slightly shorter than first funicle segment. Figures 1-6. Antennae of Encarsia spp.: 1 Encarsia aleurodici , female 2 male 3 Encarsia andrewi , female 4 male 5 Encarsia magniclava , female 6 Encarsia narroi , female. Figures 7-12. Antennae of Encarsia spp.: 7 Encarsia nayarita , female 8 Encarsia noyesi , female 9 male 10 Encarsia pithecura , female 11 Encarsia tamaulipeca , female 12 male. Distribution . Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago ( Noyes 2013 ). Hosts. Aleurodicus sp., A. capiangae Bondar, A. cocois (Curtis), A. dispersus Russell. Comments . Notes on the biology of A. capiangae (host selection, oviposition) were published by Mound (1961) . In 1966, this parasitoid was introduced into Brazil from Trinidad against Aleurodicus cocois ( Carvalho et al. 1971 ).