Encarsia azimi Hayat: Hayat 1989
Creators: name: Geng, Hui
name: Li, Cheng-De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aphelinidae
Encarsia
Encarsia azimi

description: Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986
Fig. 1
Trichaporus indicus Azim & Shafee, 1980: 335. Holotype ♀, India, Tamil Nadu, Ootacamund, (ZDAMU, not examined). Preoccupied by Prospaltella indica Shafee, 1973: 255.
Encarsia azimi Hayat, 1986: 160. Replacement name for Trichaporus indicus Azim & Shafee.
Encarsia adrianae Lopez-Avila, 1987: 425. Holotype ♀, Pakistan (BMNH, not examined). Polaszek et al., 1992: 381. Booth & Polaszek, 1996: 72. Synonymy by Hayat, 1998: 202.
Encarsia azimi Hayat: Hayat, 1989: 62; Chou et al., 1996: 196; Huang & Polaszek, 1998: 1845; Hayat, 1998: 202; Schmidt et al., 2001: 371; Hernández-Suárez et al., 2003: 62; Schmidt & Polaszek, 2007: 2132; Hayat, 2012: 245.
Material examined. CHINA: 1♀ [on slide], Liaoning Province, Fushun City, Dahuofang Forestry centre, 18.VI.2012, Hui Geng, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Jiang Liu, sweeping; 1♀ [on slide], Liaoning Province, Fushun City, Yingpan Town, Shimenling Village, 20.VI 2012, Hui Geng, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Jiang Liu, sweeping; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Manxieba Village, 22.VII.2012, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Hui Geng, Chao Zhang, sweeping; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Lancang County, 19–20.IV.2013, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Guo-Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Ruili City, Nanjingli Village, 26–27.IV.2013, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Guo- Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT? 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Manxieba Village, 17–18.IV.2013, Xiang- Xiang Jin, Guo-Hao Zu, Chao Zhang, YPT; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, Daheishan, 11–12.II.2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhong-Ping Xiong, YPT; 1♀ [on slide], Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Laoshan Mountains, Beijiushui, 1–3.VIII.2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Ye Chen, sweeping; 1♀ [on slide], Hubei Province, Suizhou City, Santan, 12–14.VIII.2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, YPT; 3♀ [on slides], Henan Province, Xinyang City, 7– 10.VIII. 2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, YPT; 2♀ [on slides], Xizang, Chayu County, Xiachayu Town, 15.V.2015, Chao Zhang, Ye Chen, sweeping; 1♀ [on slide], Jilin Province, Wangqing County, Daxingou Town, Longshui Village, 24.VIII.2015, Hui Geng, Yan Gao, Zhi-Guang Wu, sweeping. (NEFU).
Hosts. Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae; Thysanoptera: Thripidae (for detailed host species list see Noyes 2016). Distribution. China (Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Yunnan, Xizang [new records], Taiwan). Palaearctic: Iran, Italy, Japan, Spain. Oriental: India, Pakistan, Thailand. Australasian: Australia. Nearctic: USA. Afrotropical: Canary Islands.
Comments. Relative length of F1 is variable, from slightly to distinctly shorter than the pedicel, but always distinctly shorter than F2; F2 is at least 2× as long as wide, occasionally less, and slightly shorter than or equal in length to F3; and T1 lacks or has up to 2 setae.
description: Published as part of Geng, Hui & Li, Cheng-De, 2017, Three new species of the Encarsia inaron (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) species group from China with a key to Chinese species, pp. 208-222 in Zootaxa 4306 (2) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/843736