Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author
Hayat, Mohammad
Author
Ahmad, Zubair
Author
Khan, Farmanur Rehman
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
1
1
59
journal article
36865
10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.1
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1175-5326
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Charitopus
sp. near
apicatus
(Mani & Saraswat)
Material examined.
KSA
: AL-BAHA: Qunfudah,
i–iv.2011
, (MT), Coll.: S. Qahtani (
1 ♂
, on slide, EH.1496) (
ZDAMU
).
Comments.
This male is very similar to the Indian species,
Charitopus apicatus
(Mani & Saraswat)
. As noted by
Hayat (2006)
,
C. apicatus
is misplaced in
Charitopus
and probably belongs to some other (undescribed) genus, but as females are unknown, it is considered better to leave the Saudi Arabian specimen unidentified.