Epitetracnemus intersectus Fonscolombe
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan-Zhou
name: Shi, Zhen-Ya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Epitetracnemus
Epitetracnemus intersectus

description: 3. Epitetracnemus intersectus (Fonscolombe)
(Figs 61−64)
Encyrtus intersectus Fonscolombe, 1832: 305 −306. Type material lost (Graham, 1992: 1103).
Epitetracnemus intersectus; Graham, 1992: 1103.
Encyrtus dendripennis Ratzeburg, 1852: 189. Type status unknown. Synonymized with E. intersectus by Graham, 1992: 1103.
Eupelmus pictipennis Six, 1867: 219. Lectotype Ψ (designated by Gijswijt 1969: 195, not examined), Netherlands. Synonymized with Encyrtus dendripennis by Six, 1876: 195; synonymized with Anabrolepis zetterstedtii by Gijswijt, 1969: 195; synonymized with E. intersectus by Graham, 1992: 1103.
Encyrtus zetterstedtii Westwood, 1837: 440. Lectotype Ψ (designated by Graham 1969: 291, HDOU, not examined), United Kingdom. Synonymized with E. intersectus by Graham, 1992: 1103.
Habrolepis zetterstedtii; Mayr, 1876: 752.
Anabrolepis zetterstedtii; Timberlake, 1920: 434.
Epitetracnemus zetterstedtii; Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 273; Trjapitzin, 1989: 292.
Anabrolepis extranea Timberlake, 1920: 434. Holotype Ψ (Type status unknown, not examined), USA. Synonymized with E. intersectus by Graham, 1992: 1103.
Anabrolepis extranea; Yasumatsu & Tachikawa (1949); Ishii (1928); Tachikawa (1955, 1974).
Epitetracnemus extranea; Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 273.
Description. Female. Body length 1.1−1.5 mm. Body dark brown with a metallic green or blue sheen; mesoscutum and scutellum with green-blue reflections; Body dark brown with a metallic green-blue sheen; antenna (Fig. 61) generally dark brown except apex of clava, F5 and F6 yellow or F5 sometimes yellowishbrown; fore wing with infuscate pattern as in Fig. 62; fore leg dark brown except apices of coxa, femur and tibia yellow; mid leg (Fig. 63) dark brown except basal 1/3 of femur, apical 2/3 of tibia, tibia spur and tarsus yellow; hind leg dark brown, except apices of tibia and tarsus yellow.
Head. Frontovertex at anterior ocellus 1/5−1/4 head width; ocelli forming an angle of 45º −60º; posterior ocellus about half its own diameter from inner eye margin, and separated from occiptal margin by 3−4 × its own diameter; antennal scape about 2.7 × as long as wide; F1−F4 transverse, smaller than F5 and F6 (Fig. 61); mandible with two teeth and an upper truncation.
Thorax. Fore wing (Fig. 62) about 2.3 × as long as broad; marginal vein about as long as stigmal vein; postmarginal vein short or nearly absent.
Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths (Fig. 64) slightly exserted, by about 1/7 gaster length.
Relative measurements. MT 55, OL 70, GL 20.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Many species of Diaspididae (see Noyes 2002). Epitetracnemus intersectus was also recorded as a parasitoid of Pseudaulacaspis pentagona by Qu et al. (1994), but this host record probably results from a misidentification of E. comis.
Distribution. Very broadly distributed (see Noyes 2002); recorded from China by Trjapitzin (1978).
Material examined. CHINA: Beijing, 3.vii.1955, coll. D.X. Zhang (3 ΨΨ). Fujian, Fuzhou, 23.ii.1963, coll. X.F. Zhao (1 Ψ). Guangxi, Jiangkou, 27.v.2002, coll. Y.Z. Zhang (1 Ψ); Napo, 30.iii.1998, coll. C.D. Zhu (1 Ψ). Hebei, Weichang, 11.v.1985, coll. H.F. Mi (1 Ψ). Liaoning, Dalian, 20.i.1978, coll. G.T. Xu (1 Ψ); Shenyang, 1991, coll. J.X. Lou (1 Ψ).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Yan-Zhou & Shi, Zhen-Ya, 2010, The species of Adelencyrtus Ashmead and Epitetracnemus Girault (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2605 on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197666