Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Author
HANSSON, C.
Author
LASALLE, J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2003
2003-03-31
37
6
697
778
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110096744
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10.1080/00222930110096744
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Aleuroctonus vittatus
(Dozier)
(figures 98, 99, 104)
Euderomphale vittata
Dozier, 1933: 86–87
.
Aleuroctonus vittatus
(Dozier)
, LaSalle and Schauff, 1994: 255.
Diagnosis
Upper frons wide (as in
latiscapus
(figure 96)); entire antenna white, base of pedicel infuscate; female scape narrow (figure 98) (compared to
latiscapus
(figure 103)); thoracic dorsum dark with golden-purple tinges, dull, strongly convex; fore coxa dark and metallic, mid and hind coxae white; posterior margin of pale area on gaster straight (figure 104).
Description
See Dozier (1933).
Material examined
Type material.
In the original description Dozier indicated that he had deposited a female
holotype
and a male
allotype
in USNM (type no. 44824), he also stated that the description was based on
seven females
and
three males
. In the USNM there are five slides with type material of this species, but only two slides have a number (44824). One of these is also marked ‘
Allotype
W
’ and the other is marked ‘
Holotype
X
,
Paratype
X
’ (this slide contains
two female
specimens, the specimen to the left has the head detached from the body and the right specimen is intact). Clearly these two slides contain the type material indicated in the description. However, there are no means to tell which one is the
paratype
and the
holotype
female on the one slide. Both these female specimens are very similar to one another. For this reason we regard the right, intact, specimen as
holotype
(there was no mention in the description that the
holotype
was broken).
Additional material.
2
X
from
Costa Rica
(BMNH, LUZM); 1
X
1
W
from
Puerto Rico
, reared from an Aleyrodid pupa on coconut (USNM); 1
X
from
Colombia
, reared from an unidentified whitefly (BMNH).
Hosts
Unidentified
Aleyrodidae
on coconut (
Cocos nucifera
-Palmae).
Distribution
Colombia
(new record),
Costa Rica
(new record),
Puerto Rico
(Dozier, 1933).
Remarks
The material of
vittatus
accounted for in LaSalle and Schauff (1994) is a mix of
vittatus
and
marki
, e.g. the SEM illustrations (figures
37–39 in
that paper) depicts
marki
.