Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman)

Wang, Hai-Yan & Li, Cheng-De, 2018, Key to Chinese species of Copidosoma (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), with new records and three new species, Zootaxa 4418 (4), pp. 353-369 : 368

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scientific name	Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman)
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Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman) View in CoL

Figs 37–41 View FIGURES 37–41

Encyrtus serricornis Dalman, 1820: 360 View in CoL . Lectotype ♂, designated by Graham , 1959: 170, Sweden ( NHRM, not examined).

Encyrtus spherus Walker, 1837: 459 View in CoL . Lectotype ♂, designated by Graham, 1969: 299, UK (BMNH, not examined). Synonymized with Litomastix serricornis View in CoL by Graham, 1969: 299.

Litomastix serricornis (Dalman) View in CoL : Thomson, 1876: 178; Graham, 1969: 299.

Copidosoma cidariae Mayr, 1876: 734 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀, designated by Graham, 1969: 299, Germany (BMNH, not examined). Synonymized with Litomastix serricornis View in CoL by Graham, 1959: 170.

Copidosoma serricorne (Dalman) View in CoL : Trjapitzin, 1989: 348; Guerrieri & Noyes, 2005: 110; Zhang & Huang, 2007: 116.

Material examined. CHINA: 2♀ [No. E1307-02, E1307-03, on slides, NEFU], Xizang Autonomous Region (= Tibet), Linzhi City, Mt. Sejila, 27.VII.2013, Hui-lin Han, Zhi-guang Wu, YPT.

Diagnosis. Female. Body mostly dark brown. Wings hyaline except for a small brown spot around marginal and stigmal veins of fore wing. Head in frontal view as in Fig. 37 View FIGURES 37–41 with dark green reflection. Antenna ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 37–41 ) with scape black, and with reticulate sculpture; pedicel nearly as long as F1, clava 3-segmented and concave ventrally, shorter than scape, and nearly as long as 3.5 preceding funicular segments combined; sensorial part extending about 0.74× length of clava. Mesoscutum ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 37–41 ) with dark blue reflections. Fore wing ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 37–41 ) with marginal vein about 0.54× as long as stigmal vein, postmarginal vein about 0.69× as long as stigmal vein. Mesotibial spur ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 37–41 ) 0.29× as long as mesotibia, shorter than basal tarsus. Metasoma ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 37–41 ) nearly as long as mesosoma; ovipositor 0.48× as long as metasoma, 0.54× as long as mesotibia and distinctly exerted at apex of metasoma.

Host. Unknown from China, but recorded as parasitoid of several species of Geometridae and Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera) (Noyes 2017).

Distribution. China ( Liaoning, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Tibet [new record]), Austria, Czech, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, UK (Noyes 2017).

Comments. This is the first record from southwestern China.