Psyllaephagus procerus
Creators: name: Jerinić-Prodanović, Dušanka
name: Mihajlović, Ljubodrag
name: Stojanović, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Psyllaephagus
Psyllaephagus procerus

description: Psyllaephagus procerus (Mercet, 1921)   
 (Figs. 37 – 39)   
  Material examined. Acizzia jamatonica  from Albizia julibrissin, Zemun, Kej, 14.vii.2015, ex pupa 1♂. Camarotoscena speciosa (Flor), from Populus nigra Linnaeus, Zemun-Lido, 17.ix.2003. ex pupa 29.ix.2003. 1♀ 2♂♂; Zemun, Nova Galenika, 01.ix.2008. ex pupa 07.ix.2008 and 01.x.2008. 30♀♀ 1♂♂. Zemun, Geografski fakultet, 05.ix.2017. ex pupa 1♂.  Cacopsylla bidens,  from Pyrus pyraster, Bgd—Karaburma, 04.v.2006. ex pupa 15.v.2006. 1♀, 16.xi.2006. ex pupa 26.xi.2006. 1♀.  Cacopsylla bidens,  from Pyrus communis Zemun-fakultet, 24.vi.2006. ex pupa 28.vi.2006 1♀; 11.vii.2006. ex pupa 13.vii.2006. 1♀; 13.vii.2006. ex pupa 17.vii.2006. 3♀♀ 1♂, ex pupa 20.vii.2006. 1♀; Voluja, 25.v.2007. ex pupa 07.vi.2007. 4♀♀ 1♂.  Cacopsylla pyrisuga,  from Pyrus pyraster, Vršački breg, 15.vi.2006. ex pupa 23.vi.2006. 2♀♀. Psyllopsis discrepans (Flor), from Fraxinus sp.   
 Bgd—Autokomanda, 13.v.2010. ex pupa 1♂, 15.ix.2010. ex pupa 01.x.2010. 6♂♂, Majdanpek, 25.v.2007. ex pupa 30.vi.2007. 1♀ 2♂♂, Vojvodinci, 04.ix.2006. ex pupa 1♂. Psyllopsis fraxinicola (Foerster), from Fraxinus sp. Bgd—Autokomanda, 10.v.2007. ex pupa 22.v.2007. 1♀; Brodica, 25.v.2007. ex pupa 30.v.2007. 1♂; Vršački breg, 14.vi.2006. ex pupa 3♀♀; Zemun-Nova Galenika, 31.v.2007. ex pupa 08.vi.2007. 1♀ 3♂♂; ex pupa 10.vi.2007. 7♀♀ 4♂♂. Psyllopsis repens Loginova, from Fraxinus sp., Bgd—Autokomanda, 15.ix.2010. ex pupa 26.ix.2010. 2♂♂.   
 Trophic status. Parasitoid of psyllids (Noyes 2017).   
 Hosts. Coccidae and Psyllidae (Cacopsylla sp. C. pyri, Psyllopsis fraxini (Linne)) (Trjapitzin 1989; Yasnosh & Japoshvili 1999; Noyes 2017).   
 Distribution. West Palearctic and Central Asia.   
 Diagnosis. Head green. Antenna brown, three last segments light-colored. Scutellum blue green, metathorax and metasoma dark bronze, mesosoma green. Base of mesotibia of male dark. All coxae dark; femur, tibia and tarsus yellow; metafemur darkened. Scape as long as 4 – 5 flagellar segments, clava slightly longer than segment 3, flagellar segments 1 – 4 longer than wide, 5 – 6 square, 6 slightly longer than wide. The specimens match the description published by Nikolskaya (1952) and Trjapitzin (1989).   
 Comments. New record for Serbia.   
 Psyllaephagus procerus was reared from seven jumping plant-lice, from three genera: Camarotoscena (C. speciosa), Cacopsylla (C. bidens, C. pyri and C. pyrisuga) and Psyllopsis (Ps. discrepans , Ps. fraxinicola and Ps. repens).   
 Psyllaephagus procerus has been recorded in association with Cacopsylla sp., (Cacopsylla pyri and Psyllopsis fraxini), as well as the oak scale Eulecanium ciliatum (Coccidae) so far (Noyes 2017). Here, Psyllaephagus procerus is recorded in association with Cacopsylla bidens, C. pyrisuga, Psyllopsis discrepans, Ps. fraxinicola and Ps. repens for the first time (Table 2).
description: Published as part of Jerinić-Prodanović, Dušanka, Mihajlović, Ljubodrag & Stojanović, Aleksandar, 2019, Parasitoids of jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea, Hemiptera) from the family Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in Serbia, pp. 29-50 in Zootaxa 4577 (1) on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2628574