Copidosomopsis Girault
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Copidosomopsis Girault
Copidosomopsis Girault, 1915: 94. Type species: Copidosomopsis perminutus Girault, by monotypy. Pseudolitomastix Eady, 1960a: 667. Type species: Pseudolitomastix nacoleiae Eady, by original designation. Homonym of Pseudolitomastix Risbec (1954). Synonymy by Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 258.
Pentalitomastix Eady, 1960b: 173. Replacement name for Pseudolitomastix Eady. Synonymy by Noyes & Hayat, 1984: 258.
Diagnosis. Female. Length 0.8–1.1 mm (including ovipositor sheaths if exserted); head and thorax dark brown, gaster brown to dark brown; fore wing hyaline, venation brown; mandible tridentate; maxillary palpi 4-segmented, labial palpi 3-segmented; antennae inserted near mouth margin and 8- or 10-segmented (formula 1151 or 1153); marginal vein punctiform; postmarginal vein short, never longer than stigmal vein; stigmal vein with 4 placoid sensilla arranged symmetrically in a square; paratergites absent; ovipositor with gonostyli articulated with 2nd valvifer by means of a membrane. Male. Similar to female but for antennae and genitalia; antenna 9- segmented (formula 1161) (Fig. 16); clava apically narrowly rounded or pointed, never strongly obliquely truncate; genitalia with digitus sclerotized and without denticles, parameres absent or reduced.
Other important references include Hoffer (1970), Dahms & Gordh (1997), Kazmi & Hayat (1998), and Zhang & Huang (2004). Trjapitzin (1989) gave a key to the Palaearctic species and Caltagirone (1985), Trjapitzin et al. (1987) and Kazmi & Hayat (1998) gave keys to the world species.
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- Scientific name authorship
- Girault
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Encyrtidae
- Genus
- Copidosomopsis
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- genus
References
- Girault, A. A. (1915) Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea - VII. The family Encyrtidae with descriptions of new genera and species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 4, 1 - 184.
- Eady, R. D. (1960 a) A new genus and two new species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from the banana scab moth, Nacoleia octasema (Meyr.). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 50, 667 - 670.
- 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, 131 - 395.
- Eady, R. D. (1960 b) Pentalitomastix, a new name for Pseudolitomastix Eady (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 51, 173.
- Dahms, E. C. & Gordh, G. (1997) A review of the genera of Australian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) described from Australia by A. A. Girault with a checklist of included species. Memoirs on Entomology, International, 9, 518 pp.
- Kazmi, S. I. & Hayat, M. (1998) Revision of the Indian Copidosomatini (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae). Oriental Insects, 32, 287 - 362.
- Zhang, Y. Z. & Huang, D. W. (2004) A review and an illustrated key to genera of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from China. Science press, Beijing, China, 166 pp.
- Trjapitzin, V. A. (1989) Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR, 158, 1 - 489.
- Caltagirone, L. E. (1985) New Copidosomopsis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from California, with comments on the genus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 78, 705 - 708.
- Trjapitzin, V. A., Voynovich, N. D. & Sharkov, A. V. (1987) New species of the encyrtid genus Copidosomopsis Girault (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) in Vietnam. Entomofauna Vietnama, 1987, 172 - 177.