A new species of Brethesiella (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from California, USA, a parasitoid of Steatococcus tabernicolus (Hemiptera: Margarodidae)
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Trjapitzin, Vladimir A.
Author
Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
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Brethesiella flava
(
Timberlake, 1926
)
,
comb. n.
(
Fig. 8
)
Aztecencyrtus flavus
Timberlake 1926
: 18
–19;
Noyes 1980
: 180
.
Type locality
Frontera,
Tabasco
,
Mexico
.
Type material examined:
Holotype
female on point [USNM], in poor condition, labeled: 1. “parts mounted”; 2. “4274° “aring
Icerya palmeri
Tabasco
Mex
June 28–97
.”; 3. “
Holotype
”; 4. “Type No. 28143
U.S.
N.M.”; 5. “
Aztecencyrtus flavus
Timb.
Type”. Also parts of the
holotype
(mouthparts, an antenna [missing a clava], and a forewing) mounted on a slide [USNM], labeled: 1. “
Aztecencyrtus flavus
Timb.
Female antenna, wings mouthparts.
Tabasco
,
Mexico
.
June 28, 1897
. no. 4274°”; 2. “Type No. 28143
U.S.
N.M.”.
Distribution
Mexico
.
Host
Icerya palmeri
Riley & Howard (
Timberlake 1926
)
.
Comments
Member of the
flava
species group. The forewing of the
holotype
female is about 3.1x as long as wide.
FIGURES 7, 8.
Brethesiella
spp. 7.
B. mojave
,
sp. n.
, male genitalia (paratype). 8.
B. flava
, forewing venation (female, holotype).
Brethesiella iceryae
(
Howard, 1892
)
,
comb. n.
(
Figs 9, 10
)
Cerchysius iceryae
Howard 1892
: 379
.
Aztecencyrtus iceryae
(Howard)
:
Noyes 1980
: 180
;
Trjapitzin
et al.
2004
: 52
.
Type locality
Kingston
,
Jamaica
.
Type material examined
Holotype
female, in poor condition, on point (mesosoma and a forewing) and a card (metasoma and leg parts) [
USNM
], labeled: 1. “
Holotype
”; 2. “Kingston J. 1892”; 3. “4650°”; 4. “Type No. 1490 U.S.N.M.”; 5. “
Cerchysius iceryae
How.
Type”; 6. “female
Cerchysius iceryae
Howard
det.
J.S. Noyes
, 1978
HOLOTYPE
”. One forewing from the
holotype
was slidemounted at
UCRC
in
Canada
balsam in 2005.
Distribution
Jamaica
.
Host
Crypticerya rosae
(Riley &
Howard) (Howard 1892)
.
Comments
FIGURES 9, 10.
Brethesiella iceryae
(female, holotype). 9. Forewing. 10. Forewing venation.
Member of the
flava
species group. The forewing of the
holotype
female (
Fig. 9
) is about 2.9x as long as wide. Somewhat similar in coloration of the body (especially the gaster) and infuscation of the forewing to
B. flava
; however, in
B. iceryae
(
Fig. 10
) the stigmal vein of the forewing is notably longer than the postmarginal vein (about equal in length in
B. flava
,
Fig. 8
), also these two veins are at a notably wider angle to each other and the area between them is significantly more setose in
B. iceryae
than in
B. flava
.
Acknowledgments
We thank Vladimir V. Berezovskiy (UCRC) for dissecting and slidemounting two of the
paratype
specimens of the new species in
Canada
balsam, and
Michael W. Gates
for the loans of the type material from the
USNM
.
John S. Noyes
(
BMNH
) made many useful suggestions on the initial draft of the manuscript.
Svetlana N. Myartseva
(
Universidad Autónoma
de
Tamaulipas
,
Ciudad Victoria
,
Tamaulipas
,
Mexico
) kindly let us examine the specimens of
Brethesiella
reared by her in
Mexico
.
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