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Anagyrus tricolor Girault

Description

Anagyrus tricolor (Girault)

Figs 42–44

Epidinocarsis tricolor Girault, 1913: 83. Holotype ♀, Australia, QMB, not examined. Epidinocarsis auratiscutum Girault, 1915: 144. Holotype ♀, Australia, QMB, not examined. Synonymy by Noyes & Hayat, 1994: 136.

Epidinocarsis cuneinota Girault, 1915: 144. Holotype ♀, Australia, QMB, not examined. Synonymy by Noyes & Hayat, 1994: 136.

Anagyrus anamalaianus Mani & Kaul in Mani et al., 1974: 63 –65. Holotype ♀, India, USNM, not examined. Synonymy by Noyes & Hayat, 1994: 136.

Anagyrus tricolor (Girault): Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 272; 1994: 136; Hayat, 1986: 98; Mani, 1989: 747; Dahms & Gordh, 1997: 52.

Material examined. CHINA: 2♀ [on slides], Hubei Province, Guangshui City, 14–15. V. 2012, Guo-Hao Zu, Jiang Liu (NEFU), YPT; 2♀ 1♂ [on slides], Yunnan Province, Longchuan County, 26–27. IV. 2013, Guo-Hao Zu, Xiang- Xiang Jin, Chao Zhang (NEFU), YPT; 1♀ [on slide], Yunnan Province, Puer City, 17–18. IV. 2013, Guo-Hao Zu, Xiang-Xiang Jin, Chao Zhang (NEFU), YPT; 3♀ [1♀ on slide], Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Beijiushui, 8– 10. VII. 2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, Hui Geng (NEFU), YPT; 4♀ 4♂ [1♀ 1♂ on slides], Shandong Province, Qingdao City, Beijiushui, 1–3. VIII. 2014, Guo-Hao Zu, Zhi-Guang Wu, Hui Geng, Ye Chen (NEFU), YPT.

Host. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Shandong, Hubei, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong); Thailand, Vietnam, India, Laos, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia.

Comments. This is the first record from Shandong, Hubei and Yunnan Provinces of China, and also the first record from the Palaearctic region (Shandong). The species has been adequately described by several authors; here we provide three figures (Figs 42–44) of the female antennae showing variation.

Notes

Published as part of Zu, Guo-Hao & Li, Cheng-De, 2015, Description of three new species and new distributional data for four species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China, pp. 257-273 in Zootaxa 4028 (2) on pages 270-272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/253972

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Encyrtidae
Genus
Anagyrus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Girault
Species
tricolor
Taxon rank
species

References

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  • Girault, A. A. (1915) Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea - VII. The family Encyrtidae with descriptions of new genera and species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 4, 144.
  • Noyes, J. S. & Hayat, M. (1994) Oriental mealybug parasitoids of the Anagyrini (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, viii + 554 pp.
  • Mani, M. S., Dubey, O. P., Kaul, B. K. & Saraswat, G. G. (1974) Descriptions of some new and new records of some known Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from India. Memoirs of the School of Entomology, St. John's College, Agra, 3, 63 - 65.
  • Noyes, J. S. & Hayat, M. (1984) A review of the genera of Indo-Pacific Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology), 48, 229 - 230, 272.
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