Adelencyrtus aulacaspidis Brethes
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan-Zhou
name: Shi, Zhen-Ya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Adelencyrtus
Adelencyrtus aulacaspidis

description: 2. Adelencyrtus aulacaspidis (Brèthes)
(Figs 3−9)
Prionomitus aulacaspidis Brèthes, 1914: 29. Type status unknown (not examined), Chile. Epiencyrtoides aulacaspidis; Mercet, 1921: 294.
Adelencyrtus aulacaspidis; Mercet, 1921: 698; Ferrière, 1949: 371; Ferrière, 1953: 116; Tachikawa, 1963b: 171; Hayat, Alam & Agarwal, 1975: 78; Trjapitzin, 1978: 307; Trjapitzin, 1989: 290 −291.
Description. Female. Body about 1.1−1.3 mm long. Body dark brown with green or blue green sheen; antennal scape and pedicel generally dark brown, funicle yellow-brown but F5 and F6 often paler, clava dark brown; fore wing hyaline (Fig. 4); fore leg yellow except femur almost entirely and tibia dorsally dark brown (Fig. 5); mid leg yellow except coxa, apical 1/3 of femur, and subbasal band of tibia dark brown (Fig. 6); hind leg yellow except coax, femur almost entirely and subbasal band of tibia dark brown (Fig. 7).
Head. Frontovertex about 1/4 head width; ocelli forming an angle of about 60º −80º; posterior ocellus touching inner eye margin, and separated from occipital margin by about 3 × its own diameter; antenna (Fig. 3) with scape slightly expanded, about 3.5 × as long as broad; F1−F3 transverse, subequal in size and slightly smaller than F4; F5 and F6 subquadrate; clava about as long as funicle; mandible quadridentate.
Thorax. Fore wing (Fig. 4) about 2.5 × as long as broad; marginal vein about 3× as long as broad; postmarginal vein about half as long as marginal vein; stigmal vein slightly longer than postmarginal vein.
Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths (Fig. 8) slightly exserted, by about 1/6 gaster length.
Relative measurements. MT 42, OL 60, GL 17.
Male. Generally similar to female except for antennae and genitalia; antenna as in Fig. 9. Hosts. Aulacaspis difficilis (Cockerell), Aulacaspis rosae (Bouche), Chionaspis salicis (Linnaeus), Lecanopsis nevesi (Gómez-Menor); Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti); Quadraspidiotus macroporanus (Takagi) (Tachikawa 1974; Trjapitzin 1989; Noyes 2002). In China, A. aulacaspidis is recorded as an important natural enemy of Lepidosaphes cupressi Borchsenius in Jiangsu Province (Xu et al. 1995).
Distribution. Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Moldova, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Ukraine (see Noyes 2002).
Material examined. CHINA: Beijing, 25.iv.1983, ex. Pseudaulacaspis pentagona on peach, coll. D.X. Liao (6 ΨΨ, 2 ɗɗ). Fujian, Taining, 10.vi.1988, coll. P.H. Lin (9 ΨΨ); Taining (Liangye Mt.), 16.xi.2008, coll. F. Yuan (2 ΨΨ). Yunnan, Lijiang, 18.v.1974, ex. Pseudaulacaspis sp., coll. D.X. Liao (1 Ψ, 1 ɗ).
Extralimital material examined. ITALY: Superga near Torino, 16.ix.1969, coll. Z. Bouček (det. J. S. Noyes, 1992) (1 Ψ, BMNH); ENGLAND: Isle of wight, Shanklin, vi.1975, coll. G. Prinsloo (det. G. Prinsloo, 1975) (1 Ψ, BMNH).
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 4-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197666