Ooencyrtus
Creators: name: Hayat, Mohammad
name: Mehrnejad, M. Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Ooencyrtus

description: Key to some species of Ooencyrtus, females   
(Additional and non-contrasting characters are given in brackets.)  
1. Gaster completely dark brown to black, without any yellow areas.............................................. 2  
- Gaster yellow or orange at least basally or at least yellow ventrally at base........................................ 5  
 2. Antennal funicle with all segments less than 2× as long as broad; clava short, apparently 2× as long as broad (collapsed?) (scutellum with polygonal reticulate sculpture in middle third, the cells becoming larger laterally and in lateral fourth elongatereticulate; legs yellow, with mid and hind coxae, and outer margin of hind femur and tibia brown or brownish) (Morocco)........................................................ O. fecundus Ferrière & Voegele (in part, see also couplet 5)   
- Antennal funicle with at least some segments 2× or more as long as broad; clava at least about 3× as long as broad....... 3  
 3. Legs, including fore coxae, yellowish white except mid coxa brownish in about basal half on ventral surface, and hind coxa brown to dark brown; scutellum sculptured, except smooth posterior fifth; fore wing with postmarginal vein at least as long as marginal vein (Fig. 23). (antenna with F3–F5 each about 2× as long as broad, F1, F2 and F6 each less than 2× as long as broad; scutellum with raised sculpture, polygonal in about anterior third, slightly elongate posteriorly, but becoming fine in posterior fourth, and sides with elongate-reticulate sculpture, Fig. 24) (Iran).............................. O. iranicus sp. nov.   
- Legs, including fore coxae, yellow or pale brownish yellow except mid coxa at least on ventral surface, hind coxa and hind femur except apices, dark brown; scutellum sculpture restricted at most to anterior three-fourths, posterior fourth smooth (Fig. 8); fore wing with postmarginal vein clearly shorter than marginal vein (Fig. 7).................................... 4  
 4. Antenna with scape almost completely pale yellow with only a pale brown mark dorsally about halfway along length; legs yellow, with mid and hind coxae dark brown, and hind femur brown; antennal funicle with F2, F5 and F6 each about 1.5× as long as broad; F3 and F4 each 2× as long as broad; scutellum in anterior two-thirds with polygonally reticulate sculpture, but becoming very slightly elongate on sides and posteriorly (India)............................ O. egeria Huang & Noyes   
 - Antennal scape dark brown with about apical third pale yellow (Fig. 5); legs yellow, with mid coxa on ventral surface brown, and hind coxa and hind femur, except apices, dark brown; scutellum with anterior three-fourths with sharp polygonal reticulate sculpture, and lineolate-reticulate towards sides (Fig. 8) (Iran).................................. O. pistaciae sp. nov.   
 5. Legs, including coxae, yellow to pale yellow; antenna with F2–F5 each at least 2× as long as broad; F1 shorter than F2 (Fig. 35); scutellum anteriorly with raised reticulate sculpture, in medial third slightly elongate-reticulate and laterally with lineolate-reticulate sculpture (Fig. 38); gaster from base to cercal plates yellow, from cercal plates to apex dark brown (Fig. 33) (Palaearctics; India; Pakistan)....................................................... O. telenomicida (Vassiliev)   
 - Legs yellow with mid and hind coxae, and outer margin of hind femur and tibia brown or brownish; antenna with all funicle segments less than 2× as long as broad; F1 subequal in length to F2; scutellum with polygonal reticulate sculpture in middle third, the cells becoming larger laterally and lateral fourth elongate-reticulate; gaster sometimes with intersegmental region yellow or TI–TIII orange yellow, TIV–TVI brown posteriorly, and TVII dark brown (females with completely dark brown gaster will key at couplet 2) (Morocco)..................... O. fecundus Ferrière & Voegele (in part, see also couplet 2)
description: Published as part of Hayat, Mohammad & Mehrnejad, M. Reza, 2016, Ooencyrtus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), egg parasitoids of the pistachio green stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Iran, pp. 198-210 in Zootaxa 4117 (2) on page 200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/262044