Anagyrus aligarhensis Agarwal and Alam
Creators: name: Soler, José María
name: Falcó-Garí, José Vicente
name: Herrero, Berta
name: Aquino, Daniel Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Anagyrus
Anagyrus aligarhensis

description: Anagyrus aligarhensis Agarwal and Alam   
Figs. 1–5.  
 Anagyrus aligarhensis (Man Mohan) Agarwal & Alam, 1959: 392, Holotype female, India, Aligarh. Synonym of A. diversicornis Mercet. Next available name for A. diversicornis Mercet.   
 Anagyrus diversicornis Mercet, 1921: 134-135, Lectotype female, Spain. Preoccupied by A. diversicornis (Howard).   
 Philoponectroma opacum Mercet, 1921: 105, Lectotype male, Spain.   
 Anagyrus punctulatus (Man Mohan) Agarwal & Alam, 1959: 392, Holotype female, India.   
For further synonyms, see Noyes (2019).  
 For a detailed description, see Noyes & Hayat (1994: 109 as A. diversicornis Mercet) and Çalişkan et al. (2016: 157).   
 Diagnosis. Female. Body length: 1110-1420. Body color non-metallic (Fig. 1), varying from orange to dark brown, except as follows: occiput behind eyes and frontovertex along eye margins orange yellow; malar space with a yellow streak from below eye margin; mouth margin below each torulus marked dark brown; collar of pronotum white, interrupted by a dark brown band in lateral fourth and sides anteriorly brownish yellow (in fresh specimens, collar of pronotum clearly black); mesoscutum and scutellum (Fig. 4) with rugose-reticulate sculpture; tegula orange, apically dark brown (Fig. 4); mesopleuron orange, but anteriorly, dorsally and posteriorly yellow. Antenna (Fig. 2) with scape except a small basal spot and a subapical curved band, pedicel in about distal third, F2 and basal half of F3, white; radicle, rest of scape, basal 2/3 of pedicel and F1 dark brown; distal half of F3 and F4–F6 pale brown; clava pale brownish yellow. Wings hyaline (Fig. 3). Postmarginal vein shorter than stigmal vein. Legs white to pale yellow, with femora and tibiae dorsally brown. Gaster (Fig. 5) varying from orange-brown to dark brown. Forewing 2.6x as long as wide. Female antenna length/width proportions: scape: 2.4x, pedicel: 3.0x, F1: 2.9x, F2: 2.3x, F3: 2,0x, F4: 1.8x, F5: 1.7x, F6: 1.5x, clava: 2.9x. F1-F6 decreasing in length and increasing in width. Antenna male F6 and clava basally with scale-like sensilla.   
 Material examined. Spain, País Valenciano, province Castelló, town Borriol, parcel Benadressa, lat. 40°2’7.09” N & long. 0°7’51.05” W, leg.: J.Mª. Soler, vii.2015 [2 female NHM], ex Pseudococcus viburni, on ‘Clemenules’ clementine mandarin (Citrus reticulata), det.: J.Mª Soler. Spain, País Valenciano, province Castelló, town Castelló, parcel Sanatori, lat. 40°0’36.12” N & long. 0°4’36.11” W, leg.: J.Mª. Soler, vii.2016 [2 female NHM], ex Pseudococcus viburni, on Navel Lane Late orange (Citrus sinensis), det.: J.Mª Soler. Spain, País Valenciano, province Valencia, town Godelleta, lat. 39°25’50.91” N & long. 0°42’41.82” W, leg.: B. Herrero and J.Mª. Soler, 19.viii.2016, ex Pseudococcus viburni collected 5.viii.2016 [1 female ENV] on persimmon (Diospyros kaki), det.: J.Mª Soler. Spain, País Valenciano, province Valencia, town Picassent, lat. 39°22’33.35” N & long. 0°33’33.10” W, leg.: J.Mª. Soler, vii-viii.2017 [3 female NHM], ex Pseudococcus viburni, on Navel Lane Late orange (Citrus sinensis), det.: J. Mª Soler.   
 Host. This is the first known record of A. aligarhensis parasitizing the obscure mealybug Pseudococcus viburni. The relationship has been found on Citrus reticulata Blanco, Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck and Diospyros kaki L.f.   
 Comments. It seems to be a widely distributed species in the Old World and introduced in USA (Noyes & Hayat 1994; Çalişkan et al. 2016). This species has been long treated in Spain as Anagyrus diversicornis Mercet, with A. aligarhensis as synonym established by Noyes and Hayat (1994); but being a preoccupied name by A. diversicornis (Howard), the next available name is A. aligarhensis (Noyes 2000). The specimens were identified by comparison with literature descriptions.
description: Published as part of Soler, José María, Falcó-Garí, José Vicente, Herrero, Berta & Aquino, Daniel Alejandro, 2021, The Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitoids of the obscure mealybug Pseudococcus viburni (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Spain, with description of a new species, pp. 83-98 in Zootaxa 4980 (1) on pages 85-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4883037