Notes on some parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae (Kuwana) (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) in the Republic of Korea
Author
Suh, Soo-Jung
text
Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-02-22
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.3670468
3565d3bc-9313-4bc0-8b23-6394b02b6d50
1942-1354
3670468
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Marietta picta
(
Andre, 1878
)
[
Aphelinidae
] (
Fig. 2
)
Agonioneurus pictus
Andre, 1878: 85
. Female,
France
.
Diagnosis.
Female.
Body about
0.5 mm
long, brownish yellow. Head and thorax with black spots. Antenna light yellow; scape with two black oblique bands; base of pedicel and antennal funicle III (F3) black; F1–F2 and clava black. Legs light yellow, femora and tibia with black transverse bands. Dorsum and venter of abdomen in central portion brown; both sides of abdomen with segmentally arranged dark reticulate strips. Fore wing relatively short, its length less than 2.5 × its width; wing disc with contrasting areas of dark and hyaline setae with fuscated patterns.
Male.
Similar to the female except for the antenna and genitalia: tip of antennal clava and F3 pale; dorsum of gaster reticulate; genitalia 4× as long as wide (
Li et al. 2001
).
Material examined.
Korea
.
CN
: Techno 4-ro, Ryuseong-gu, Daejeon-si,
1 female
,
ex.
A
.
lagerstroemiae
on
L
.
indica
,
31-V-2014
(S.J. Suh).
Distribution.
Canada
,
China
, Europe,
Korea
,
Mexico
,
Peru
(
Noyes 2018
).
Hosts.
Recorded from 50 species of scale insects (Coccoidea), aphids (
Aphididae
), and psyllids (
Psyllidae
,
Triozidae
) (
Noyes 2018
).
Remarks.
This species is a hyperparasitoid (
Li et al. 2001
).