Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author
Hayat, Mohammad
Author
Ahmad, Zubair
Author
Khan, Farmanur Rehman
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
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1
59
journal article
36865
10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1
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1175-5326
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Coelopencyrtus krishnamurtii
(Mahdihassan)
(
Figs 58–60
)
Giraultella krishnamurtii
Mahdihassan, 1957
: 182
, ♀.
India
.
Coelopencyrtus krishnamurtii
(Mahdihassan)
:
Noyes & Hayat, 1984
: 255
.
Kazmi & Hayat, 1998
: 336
, ♀, redescription, figures.
Material examined.
KSA
: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah,
vi.2012
, (MT), Coll. Z. Ahmad (2 ♀, one on slide, EH.1594) (
ZDAMU
).
Comments.
The genus
Coelopencyrtus
Timberlake
contains 30 world species (
Noyes 2013
). We have checked descriptions of nearly all the described species (
Timberlake 1919b
,
1922
;
Burks 1958
;
Annecke & Doutt 1961
;
Annecke 1968
;
Kazmi & Hayat 1998
), and find that the Saudi Arabian specimens agree with
C. krishnamurtii
(Mahdihassan)
, differing from the Indian specimens in having the scutellum largely bronzy violet, whereas it is largely bluish with some bronzy shine medially in the Indian specimens. The species is illustrated with some figures (
Figs 58–60
).