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

description: 8. Adelencyrtus moderatus (Howard)
(Figs 32−36)
Encyrtus moderatus Howard, 1897: 152. Lectotype Ψ (BMNH, examined), designated by Noyes (1979), Grenada.
Syrphophagus moderatus; Ashmead, 1900: 398.
Adelencyrtus moderatus; Noyes, 1979: 144; Trjapitzin, 1989: 291; Hayat, 2006: 105 −106.
Adelencyrtus femoralis Compere & Annecke, 1961. Lectotype Ψ (USNM, not examined), designated by Noyes (1979), India. Synonymized with A. moderatus by Noyes, 1979: 144.
Adelencyrtus miyarai Tachikawa, 1963a: 131. Holotype Ψ (? Kyushu University, not examined), Japan. Synonymized with A. moderatus by Noyes, 1979: 144.
Adelencyrtus miyarai; Tachikawa, 1963b: 170; Hayat et al., 1975: 78.
Adelencyrtus mysorensis Hayat, Alam & Agarwal, 1975: 82. Holotype Ψ (BMNH, examined), India. Synonymized with A. moderatus by Hayat, 1981: 14.
Description. Female. Body length about 1.0 mm. Body dark brown with green or blue sheen; antenna (Fig. 32) generally yellow, but pedicle dorsally and clava apically dark brownish; fore wing (Fig. 33) hyaline, but about apical 1/3 slightly infuscate; legs (Figs 34−36) yellowish, hind femur generally dark brown, mid and hind coxae often yellow, rarely brownish-yellow, mid tibia basally rarely marked with dark brown.
Head. Frontovertex nearly 1/3 head width; ocelli arranged in an angle of about 60º, posterior ocelli nearly touching inner eye margin, separated from occipital margin by 3 × its own diameter; antennal scape about 4 × as long as broad; pedicel about as long as combined length of F1−F3; F1−F3 slightly transverse, F4 sometimes also transverse or subquadrate similar to F4 and F5; mandible quadridentate (Hayat et al. 1975, fig. 205).
Thorax. Fore wing about 2.5 × as long as broad; marginal vein long, nearly 3 × as long as broad; postmarginal vein about 1/3 as long as marginal vein; stigmal vein about half as long as marginal vein (Fig. 33).
Gaster. Ovipositor sheaths very slightly exserted, by about 1/7 gaster length.
Relative measurements. MT 48, OL 80, GL 22.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Aspidiella hartii (Cockerell), Aspidiella sacchari (Cockerell), Aulacaspis takarai (Takahashi), Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner), Duplachionaspis phragmitidis (Borchsenius), Duplachionaspis sp., Lepidosaphes sp., Melanaspis glomerata (Green) (Williams 1970; Hayat et al. 1975; Hayat 1986; Trjapitzin 1989; Palaniswami 1991; Noyes & Hayat 1994; Noyes 2002).
Distribution. Barbados, China (new record), Fiji, Ghana, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Pakistan, St Christopher (Kitts) & Nevis, St. Vincent, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkmenistan, USA (Hayat 1986; Trjapitzin 1989; Noyes 2002; Trjapitzin et al. 2004).
Type material examined. GRENADA: Baltharzar (windward side), H.H. Smith (lectotype Ψ of A. moderatus, BMNH). JAPAN: Okinawa, Muyako Is., ex. Aulacaspis takarai, 5.i.1962, coll. T. Miyara (2 ΨΨ paratypes of A. miyarai, BMNH). INDIA: Gulbarga, Mysore, 18.xi.1967, ex. Duplachionaspis? sp., on Dichanthium annulatum, M. Hayat (holotype Ψ of A. mysorensis, BMNH).
Non-type material examined. CHINA: Fujian, Taining, 20.xi.2008, coll. F. Yuan (1 Ψ). Guangxi, Daxin, 30.iii.1998, C.D. Zhu (1 Ψ). Hainan, Bawang Ling, 12.v.2007, L. Ding (2 ΨΨ); Five Finger Mt., 12.v.2007, Y.Z. Zhang (1 Ψ); Haikou, 23.v.2007, L. Ding (2 ΨΨ).
Comments. Noyes (1979) noted there is some variation in the dimensions of F4 and coloration of coxae, which are not repeated here.
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 11-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197666