Aphelopus maculiceps Bergman 1957
Creators: name: Xu, Zaifu
name: Olmi, Massimo
name: He, Junhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Aphelopus
Aphelopus maculiceps

description: 11. Aphelopus maculiceps Bergman, 1957
(Plate 7A)
Aphelopus maculiceps Bergman 1957: 9; Olmi 1984: 66; Fiori 1984: 2; Guglielmino & Olmi 1997: 232; He & Xu 2002: 51; Xu et al. 2011 g (Suppl.): 1.
Description of Female. Fully winged; length 1.2–1.4 mm. Head testaceous, except ocellar region brown; antenna brown, except segments 1–3 or 1–4 testaceous; mesosoma black, occasionally with scutum brown; metasoma blackbrown; legs testaceous. Antenna clavate; antennal segments in following proportions: 4:4:4:4:3.5:3:3:3:2.5:5. Head dull, granulated; frontal line absent; POL = 5; OL = 3; OOL = 4; OPL = 3; TL = 3; occipital carina complete. Scutum, scutellum and metanotum dull, granulated. Notauli absent. Propodeum with dorsal surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface sculptured by two longitudinal keels, lateral areas reticulate rugose and median area partly smooth and partly rugose. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Description of Male. Fully winged; length 1.2–1.4 mm. Head testaceous, except ocellar region brown (in specimen from China, Tengchong, vertex brown); antenna brown, except segments 1–3 or 1–4 testaceous; mesosoma black; occasionally scutum brown; metasoma black-brown; legs testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennal segments in following proportions: 4:4:4:4:3.5:3:3:3:2.5:5. Head dull, granulated; frontal line absent (in specimen from China, Tengchong, frontal line incomplete, hardly and shortly visible only near clypeus); POL = 5; OL = 3; OOL = 4; OPL = 3; TL = 3; occipital carina complete. Scutum, scutellum and metanotum dull, granulated. Notauli absent. Propodeum with dorsal surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface sculptured by two longitudinal keels, lateral areas reticulate rugose and median area partly smooth and partly rugose. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Basivolsella (Plate 7A) with two subdistal bristles and outer basal process. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Material examined. Types: holotype ♂: INDONESIA: Java, Bogor, 250 m, IV.1954, Bergman leg., ex imago of Empoasca sundaica Bergman collected on Arachis hypogaea (RNHL). Paratypes: same locality label as holotype, ♀ allotype (RNHL); same locality label as holotype, III.1954, 1♀ (USNM); same locality label as holotype, 1♀ (BMNH); further paratypes should be in Indonesia, Bogor Faculty of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Other material. CHINA: Guangdong, Nanling National Nature Reserve, 16.X.2007, Zaifu Xu leg., 1♀ (SCAU); Hainan, Bawangling National Nature Reserve, 21–23.X.2007, Jiemin Yaoleg., 1 ♀ (SCAU); Taiwan, Nantou, Tungpu, 1200 m, 22–25.XI.1982, K.C. Chou & S.P. Huang leg., 1♀ (TARI); Yunnan, Tengchong, Jietou, 12.V.2009, Jie Zeng leg., 1♂ (SCAU). INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Patancheru, 28.XII.1976, on cowpea, 1♀ (BMNH); Tamil Nadu, Dharmapuri District, Hosur, 27.XII.1982, C.I.B.C., I.S., reared from Empoasca signata (Haupt), 4♀♀ (three in BMNH; one in AMNH). VIET NAM: Khánh Hòa, Nha Trang, 16–17.IV.1987, A. Ponomarenko leg., 1♀ (MOLC).
Hosts. Cicadellidae Typhlocybinae (Guglielmino & Olmi, 1997): in India, Tamil Nadu: Empoasca signata (Haupt) (Fiori, 1984); in Indonesia, Java: Empoasca sundaica Bergman (Bergman, 1957).
Distribution. China (Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan), Indonesia (Java), India (Andhra Pradesh), Viet Nam (Khánh Hòa).
description: Published as part of Xu, Zaifu, Olmi, Massimo & He, Junhua, 2013, Dryinidae of the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-460 in Zootaxa 3614 (1) on pages 23-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5278372