Ablerus calvus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; E-mail: wzhuhong @ 126. com (Z. H. W.), jhuang 1234 @ 126. com (J. H.) & Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK, E-mail: a. polaszek @ nhm. ac. uk (A. P.)
Description
2. Ablerus calvus (Huang, 1994)
Azotus calvus Huang, 1994: 7, 129.
Holotype ♀. Paratypes 9 ♀♀. China: Fujian (FAFU).
Ablerus calvus (Huang, 1994): Xu & Huang, 2004: 325.
MATERIAL
China. Fujian: Holotype ♀, Fuzhou, Forest Park, 12-XI-1989, Jian-Qing Huang, by yellow pan trap (FAFU); Paratypes, 9 ♀♀, same data as holotype, except 23-V, 13-VI, 2-XII-1989 (FAFU); 1 ♀, Fuzhou, Forest Park, 8-VII-1989, Zhi-Shan Wu, by sweeping (FAFU).
MALE
Unknown.
HOST
Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION
China (Fujian).
REMARKS
Ablerus calvus resembles Ablerus macchiae (Annecke & Insley, 1970) but is distinguished from the latter by the following: antenna with F1 relatively short, clava about as long as or slightly longer than F1–F3 combined; forewings with speculum extending from stigmal vein distally to apex of wings; legs mostly dark brown.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FAFU
- Event date
- 1989-11-12
- Verbatim event date
- 1989-11-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Huang
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Aphelinidae
- Genus
- Ablerus
- Species
- calvus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ablerus calvus (Huang, 1994) sec. Wang, Huang & Polaszek, 2016
References
- Huang J. 1994. Systematic studies on Aphelinidae of China (Hymenoptera: Chal- cidoidea). Contributions of the Biological Control Research Institute, Fujian Agricultural University Special Publication No. 5. Chongqing Publishing House, Chongqing, China.
- Xu ZH, Huang J. 2004. Chinese Fauna of Parasitic Wasps on Scale Insects. Shang- hai Scientific & Technical Publishers, Shanghai, China.
- Annecke DP, Insley HP. 1970. New and little known species of Azotus Howard, Ablerus Howard and Physcus Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Af- rica and Mauritius. Bulletin of Entomological Research 60: 237 - 251.