A new species of Zagrammosoma Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) from Qinghai Province, China
Author
Cao, Huan-Xi
Author
La Salle, John
Author
Zhu, Chao-Dong
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.417.7464
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.417.7464
1313-2970-417-45
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Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae
Genus
Zagrammosoma Ashmead, 1904
Hippocephalus
Ashmead, 1888: viii. Type species:
Hippocephalus multilineatus
Ashmead; by monotypy; preoccupied by
Hippocephalus
Swainson, 1839 in fishes.
Zagrammosoma
Ashmead, 1904: 354, 393. Replacement name for
Hippocephalus
Ashmead (not Swainson).
Zagrammatosoma
Schulz, 1906: 142. Unjustified emendation.
Mirzagrammosoma
Girault, 1915: 279. Type species:
Mirzagrammosoma lineaticeps
Girault; by monotypy; synonymized by
La Salle 1989
: 230, 232.
Diagnosis.
Vertex vaulted and extending above level of compound eyes; funicle 2-segmented; pronotum elongate; notaulus curved and extending to anterior half of axilla; axilla strongly advanced, typically elongate, mostly anterior to scutellum; mesoscutum elongate, longer than scutellum; scutellum with 2 pairs setae, and 2 parallel submedian grooves which are often difficult to discern due to color pattern; forewing often with fuscate areas; propodeum without plicae, but with remnants of a median carina; color at least partly yellow, often with striking patterns, not metallic.
Biology.
The biology of
Zagrammosoma
has been poorly studied, but its taxonomic host range seems to be quite wide but within a narrow ecological niche. Species are ectoparasitoids, mostly of the larvae or pupae of leafminers from several insect orders, including
Lepidoptera
and
Diptera
(
La Salle 1989
), occasionally
Coleoptera
(
Peck 1951
) and
Hymenoptera
(
Ubaidillah et al. 2000
), and in total 15 families in the above four orders (
Noyes 2013
).