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Ablerus calvus

  • 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.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Polaszek, Andrew, 2016, The species of genus Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from China, with description of a new species, pp. 395-405 in Florida Entomologist 99 (3) on page 398, DOI: 10.1653/024.099.0310, http://zenodo.org/record/11494126

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Additional details

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.