Lopheucoila anastrephae Rhower 1919
Creators: name: Guimarães, Jorge A.
name: Gallardo, Fabiana E.
name: Diaz, Norma Beatriz
name: Zucchi, Roberto A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Lopheucoila
Lopheucoila anastrephae

description: Lopheucoila anastrephae (Rhower, 1919)
(Figs. 1–8)
Diglyphosema anastrephae Rhower, 1919: 156 Lopheucoila anastrephae; Weld 1951: 224 Diagnosis. Body stout. Head (Fig. 1) with lateral margin of occiput well defined. Eyes without pubescence. Antennae of female (Fig. 2) glabrous, widened towards apex and laterally compressed, club 9­segmented, inconspicuous. Antennae of male (Fig. 3) with the first flagellomere slightly curved, distally swollen, slightly longer than second. Dorsal margin of pronotal plate (Fig. 4) with three emarginations; sides of pronotum with longitudinal carinae. Mesoscutum (Figs. 5 and 6) strongly convex in profile, median mesoscutal carina present. Dorsal part of scutellum (Fig. 6) striate radialy; dorsoposterior part in dorsal view emarginate, four­angled posterolaterally. Scutellar plate (Figs. 5 and 6) small, quite elevated, with a tooth overhanging the circular pit, which is distinctly removed from the posterior margin of the plate. Mesopleuron (Fig. 5) with subalar pit. Metapleuron (Fig. 5) sculptured. Forewings (Fig. 7) completely hyaline, punctate, apical margin with hair fringe; marginal cell open anteriorly and partly at base; veins colourless. Metacoxa (Fig. 8) with a band of hairs along the posterior margin. Third abdominal tergum of metasoma (Fig. 5) with a thin hairy ring and two sulci striate at base; metasoma distally punctate.
Geographical distribution. Neotropical Region: Mexico, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Argentina (Gallardo & Diaz 1999). In Brazil it is distributed throughout the States of Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, Santa Catarina (Guimarães et al. 2000) and Minas Gerais (new record).
Hosts. Tephritidae: Anastrepha sp. (in Rhower 1919); A. fraterculus (in Weld 1951); A. pseudoparallela and A. amita (in Guimarães et al. 2000a). Lonchaeidae: Neosilba batesi (in Wharton et al. 1998) and Neosilba spp. (in Guimarães et al. 1999; 2000a).
The material studied was obtained mainly from puparia of lonchaeids on Passifloraceae and Rutaceae.
Remarks. Lopheucoila Weld, 1951 is represented by three neotropical species: L. mexicana Weld 1951, L. anastrephae and L. truncicola. However, Gallardo and Diaz (1999) suggested that L. truncicola could be a synonymous of L. anastrephae.
Type material. Lopheucoila anastrephae: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO. Holotype, VII.1917, (1 female), coll. Urich. (USNM).
Material collected. BRAZIL. Mato Grosso do Sul: Anastácio, Sítio Carandazal, 30.III.1993 (2 males), 6.IV.1993 (1 male); 27.IV.1993, (1 female); 18.V.1993, (1 male, 1 female); 24.V.1993, (3 males, 6 females); 1.VI.1993, (1 male, 1 female); 21.VI.1993, (1 male); 25.VII.1993, (1 male); 2.VIII.1993, (2 males); 17.VIII.1993, (2 males); 23.VIII.1993, (4 males, 1 female); 30.VIII.1993, (2 males); 6.IX.1993, (2 males, 1 female); 13.IX.1993, (1 male, 10 females); 27.IX.1993, (1 male, 2 females); 4.X.1993, (1 female); 1.XI.1993, (4 males, 10 females); 25.XI.1993, (1 male); 6.XII.1993, (1 male, 2 females); 4.IV.1994, (1 male); 18.IV.1994, (1 female); 2.V.1994, (1 male); 16.V.1994, (3 males); 6. VI.1994, (1 male); 22.VIII.1994, (1 male); 9.IV.1995, (1 male); 16.IV.1995, (1 female); 21.V.1995, (3 males, 3 females); Sítio Santo Antônio, 25.IV.1993, (2 males); Colônia Jamic, Terenos, 31.III.1993, (17 males, 3 females); 26.IV.1993, (2 males, 3 females); 3.V.1993, (2 males); 14.V.1993, (8 males, 8 females); 7.VI.1993, (2 males, 2 females); 22.III.1994, (8 males, 3 females); 17.V.1994, (1 female); 12.VII.1994, (1 female); 26.III.1995, (2 males, 1 female); 14.V.1995, (5 female); Aquidauana, 14.I.1994, (1 female); 24. VI.1994, (2 males, 13 females); 28.V.1996, (2 female); Ranchinho Rochedo, 24.I.1994, (1 female), coll. M.A. Uchôa F. (ESALQ). Anastácio, Sítio Carandazal, 28.V.1995, (5 males, 3 females), coll. M.A. Uchôa F. (MLP). Minas Gerais: Grupiara, 08.X.2000, (1 male), coll. J.A. Guimarães. (ESALQ) São Paulo: Regente Feijó, 27.XI.1996, (3 males); São Bento do Sapucaí, 1.III.1996, (1 male); 1.III.1996, (10 males, 14 females); Campinas, 3.II.1995, (5 males); 25.VI.1997, (2 males); 20.XI.1997, (8 males, 18 females); 11.II.1998, (2 males, 2 females); 9.V.1997, (1 male); 18.I.1996, (3 males); 30.VII.1997, (5 males); Assis, 5.II.1998, (3 males); Garça, 13.VIII.1997, (1 male); Limeira, 20.IV.1998, (1 female), coll. M.F. Souza Filho. (ESALQ).
description: Published as part of Guimarães, Jorge A., Gallardo, Fabiana E., Diaz, Norma Beatriz & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2003, Eucoilinae species (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) parasitoids of fruit­infesting dipterous larvae in Brazil: identity, geographical distribution and host associations, pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 278 on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156603